Rehoboth

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Rehoboth: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
Rehoboth-Ir: NET AVS TEV
Rehoboth Ir: NIV
Rehoboth-ir: NRSV

a town on the Euphrates
a well which Isaac dug
a town of Assyria built by Nimrod

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spaces; places

Google Maps: Rehoboth (1) (31° 4´, 34° 35´); Rehoboth (2) (30° 53´, 35° 53´); Rehoboth-Ir (36° 21´, 43° 9´)

Hebrew

Strongs #07344: twbxr R@chobowth or tbxr R@choboth

Rehoboth = "wide places or streets"

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

7344 Rchobowth rekh-o-both'

or Rchoboth {rekh-o-both'}; plural of 7339; streets;
Rechoboth, a place in Assyria and one in Palestine:-
Rehoboth.
see HEBREW for 07339

Rehoboth [EBD]

broad places. (1.) A well in Gerar dug by Isaac (Gen. 26:22), supposed to be in Wady er-Ruheibeh, about 20 miles south of Beersheba.

(2.) An ancient city on the Euphrates (Gen. 36:37; 1 Chr. 1:48), "Rehoboth by the river."

(3.) Named among the cities of Asshur (Gen. 10:11). Probably, however, the words "rehoboth'ir" are to be translated as in the Vulgate and the margin of A.V., "the streets of the city," or rather "the public square of the city", i.e., of Nineveh.

Rehoboth [NAVE]

REHOBOTH
1. A city built by Asshur, Gen. 10:11.
2. A city of the Edomites, Gen. 36:37; 1 Chr. 1:48.
3. The name given to a well dug by Isaac, Gen. 26:22.

REHOBOTH [SMITH]

(wide places , i.e. streets).

1. The third of the series of wells dug by Isaac, (Genesis 26:22) in the Philistines? territory, lately identified as er-Ruheibeh , 16 miles south of Beersheba.
2. One of the four cities built by Asshur, or by Nimrod in Asshur, according as this difficult passage is translated. (Genesis 10:11) Nothing certain is known of its position.
3. The city of a certain Saul or Shaul, one of the early kings of the Edomites. (Genesis 36:37; 1 Chronicles 1:48) The affix "by the river" fixes the situation of Rehoboth as on the Euphrates.

REHOBOTH [ISBE]

REHOBOTH - re-ho'-both, re-ho'-both (rehobhoth, "broad places"; Euruchoria): One of the wells dug by Isaac (Gen 26:22). It is probably the Rubuta of the Tell el-Amarna Letters (Petrie, numbers 256, 260; see also The Expository Times, XI, 239 (Konig), 377 (Sayce)), and it is almost certainly identical with the ruin Ruchaibeh, 8 hours Southwest of Beersheba. Robinson (BR, I, 196-97) describes the ruins of the ancient city as thickly covering a "level tract of 10 to 12 acres in extent"; "many of the dwellings had each its cistern, cut in the solid rock"; "once this must have been a city of not less than 12,000 or 15,000 inhabitants. Now it is a perfect field of ruins, a scene of unutterable desolation, across which the passing stranger can with difficulty find his way." Huntington (Palestine and Its Transformation, 124) describes considerable remains of a suburban population extending both to the North and to the South of this once important place.

E. W. G. Masterman

REHOBOTH-IR [ISBE]

REHOBOTH-IR - r.-ur, r.-ir (rehobhoth `ir, "Rehoboth City"; Septuagint he Rhohbos (Rhooboth) polis, "the city Rhoobos, Rhooboth"):

1. Probably Rebit Ninua:

The second of the cities built by Asshur (the Revised Version (British and American) by Nimrod) in Assyria (Gen 10:11,12). Unlike the other three, the exact equivalent of this name is not found in Assyrian literature Fried. Delitzsch points out (Wo lag das Paradies? 260 f) that rechobhoth is the equivalent of the Assyrian rebite, "streets," and suggests that the site referred to may be the Rebit Ninua, "streets of Nineveh," mentioned by Sargon of Assyria in connection with the peopling of Maganubba (Khorsabad or Dur-Sarru-kin; see NINEVEH); and it was through this tract that Esar-haddon, his grandson, caused the heads of the kings of Kundi and Sidon to be carried in procession when he returned from his expedition to the Mediterranean.

2. Or, Possibly, the Old Capital, Assur:

Though the probabilities in favor of Rebit Ninua are great, it is doubtful whether a suburb could have been regarded as a foundation worthy of a primitive ruler, and that a very important city, Assur, the old capital of Assyria, would rather be expected. One of the groups expressing its name is composed of the characters Sag-uru, or, dialectically, Sab-eri, the second element being the original of the Hebrew `ir. As the "center-city," Assur may have been regarded as the city of broad spaces (rechobhoth)--its ruins are of considerable extent. The German explorers there have made many important discoveries of temples, temple- towers, palaces and streets, the most picturesque in ancient times being the twin tower-temples of Anu (the sky) and Adad (Hadad). The ruins lie on the Tigris, about 50 miles South of Nineveh. It practically ceased to be the capital about the middle of the 8th century BC.

See NINEVEH.

T. G. Pinches