H7344I

רְחֹבוֹת

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Rehoboth

Rehoboth = "wide places or streets" one of the 4 cities built by Asshur or by Nimrod in Asshur located close to Nineveh Another name of nin.veh (נִינְוֵה "Nineveh" H5210)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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}).

1 occurrence

Genesis 10:11