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Rehoboth in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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 Beersheb...

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Rehoboth Scripture - Genesis 36:37

And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river reigned in his stead....

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Rehoboth in Naves Topical Bible

1. A city built by Asshur Ge 10:11 -2. A city of the Edomites Ge 36:37; 1Ch 1:48 -3. The name given to a well that was dug by Isaac and his servants Ge 26:22...

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Rehoboth Scripture - 1 Chronicles 1:48

And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead....

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Rehoboth in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(wide places, i.e. streets). 1. The third of the series of wells dug by Isaac, Ge 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. Ge 10:11 Nothing certain is known of its pos...

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Rehoboth in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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 a...

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Rehoboth in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("room, broad space".) Third of Isaac's wells, called so because after that the wells Esek ("contention") and Sitnah ("hatred"), which his men had dug, the Gerar herdsmen would not let him keep peaceably, now at last his good has overcome their evil, and God makes room for him. Spiritually Romans 12:18-21; Genesis 32:20; Genesis 13:7-9; Matthe...

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Rehoboth in Hitchcock's Bible Names

spaces; places...

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Rehoboth Scripture - Genesis 26:22

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land....

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Rehoboth Scripture - Genesis 10:11

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,...

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