Argob
Ἀργόβ
Argob (Ἀργόβ, LXX: Râijib, Robinson, Palestine, vol. iii. App. p. 166), a district in Bashan, E. of the lake of Gennesareth, which was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh (Dent. 3.4, 13); afterwards placed under the government of one of Solomon's purveyors. (1 Kings, 4.13.) Reland (Talaest. p. 959) finds traces of this name in the trans-Jordanic town Ragab (Ῥαγαβά, J. AJ 12.18.5), which Eusebius (Onomast. s. v. Argob) places 15 M. P. west of Gerasa. Burkhardt (Travels, p. 279) supposed that he had found the ruins of this city in those of El-Hossn on the E. side of the lake of Gennesareth, but Mr. Bankes (Quarterly Review, vol. xxvi. p. 389) conceives this to have been the site of Gamala.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.