Rahab was a woman of Jericho with a scandalous past, but she hid the Israelite spies and staked everything on the God of Israel — for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. A scarlet cord in her window spared her house when the city fell.
The New Testament honours her twice: Hebrews lists her among the heroes of faith — by faith the harlot Rahab perished not — and Matthew names her in the genealogy of Jesus. Her story is one of Scripture's clearest pictures of grace reaching the outsider.
Rahab is a bold, uncommon name carried by one of the Bible's great examples of saving faith.
Variants & nicknames
Rachab, Rahaba
Rahab in the Bible
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.