Rehoboth
Smith’s Bible Dictionary · William Smith, F. N. Peloubet, M. A. Peloubet
(wide places , i.e. streets).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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