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Rehoboth
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Reho'both. (wide places, that is, 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.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Rehoboth'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/r/rehoboth.html. 1901.
Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Rehoboth'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/r/rehoboth.html. 1901.
