Rehoboth:
(wide places, i.e. 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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