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 Beersheb...
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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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(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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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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("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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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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Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and
the city Rehoboth, and Calah,...
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And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river reigned
in his stead....
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And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river
reigned in his stead....
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