Lexical Definition

‎רְחֹבוֹת‎ Rᵉchôbôwth (rekh-o-both') Rehoboth ^N:N--L
or רְחֹבֹת Rᵉchôbôth (rekho-both'); plural of ‎רְחֹב‎; streets

Rehoboth.

• § Rehoboth = "wide places or streets"
• Rechoboth, a place in Assyria and one in Palestine

1) the 3rd of a series of wells dug by Isaac in the territory of the Philistines
2) one of the 4 cities built by Asshur or by Nimrod in Asshur located close to Nineveh
3) a city of Saul or Shaul, one of the early kings of the Edomites

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎רְחֹבוֺת‎

proper name, of a location 1. ‎רְחֹבֹת עִיר‎ near Nineveh Gen 10:11 (J), τῆν Ροωβως[θ] πόλιν; Dl^{Pa 261} compare Assyrian rêbit Ninâ, but see COT^{Gen 10:11.}

2. ‎רְחֹבוֺת‎, name of well Gen 26:22 (J), Εὐρυχωρία (compare interpretation of vGen 26:22); Palmer^{Desert 296 f.} identification with er-Ruµaibeh (in Wady R.) approximately 45 miles southwest of Hebron, north of latitude 31°.

3. ‎הַנָּהָר‎ ‎׳‎‎ר‎, home of a king of Edom Gen 36:37 (P) = 1Chr 1:48, Ροωβωθ τῆς παρὰ ποταμόν, P. τοῦ ποταμοῦ (i.e. on Euphrates ? here improbable; conjectures in Di Holz Wkl^{Geschichte. Israel i. 192}).

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