Resapha
Resapha al. REZEPH (Ῥησάφα), a city of Syria, reckoned by Ptolemy to the district of Palmyrene (5.15.24), the Risapa of the Peutinger Tables, 21 miles from Sure; probably identical with the Rossafat of Abulfeda (Tab. Syr. p. 119), which he places near Rakka, not quite a day's journey from the Euphrates. It is supposed to be identical with the Rezeph of Scripture (Ῥαφις, LXX.), taken by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, as he boasts in his insulting letter to Hezekiah. (2 Kings, 19.12.) It has been identified with Sergiopolis, apparently without sufficient reason. (Mannert, Geographie von Syrien, p. 413.)
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.