REMPHAN
\ɹɪmfˈan], \ɹɪmfˈan], \ɹ_ɪ_m_f_ˈa_n]\
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A god worshipped by the Israelites in the wilderness, the name being probably an Egypt, equivalent substituted by the Septuagint for Chiun, or the Dog-star.
By Henry Percy Smith
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- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.