King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7344
Transliteration: Rechoboth
Phonetic Spelling: (rekh-o-both')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "broad places", a well dug by Isaac, also two cities of unc. location
Meaning: Rehoboth -- "broad places", a well dug by Isaac, also two cities of uncertain location
Word Summary
Rechoboth: "broad places", a well dug by Isaac, also two cities of unc. location
Original Word: רְחֹבוֹתTransliteration: Rechoboth
Phonetic Spelling: (rekh-o-both')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "broad places", a well dug by Isaac, also two cities of unc. location
Meaning: Rehoboth -- "broad places", a well dug by Isaac, also two cities of uncertain location
Strong's Concordance
Rehoboth Or Rchoboth {rekh-o-both'}; plural of rchob; streets; Rechoboth, a place in Assyria and one in Palestine -- Rehoboth.
see HEBREW rchob
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7344. Rechoboth
רְחֹבוֺת proper name, of a location 1. עִיר רְחֹבֹת near Nineveh Genesis 10:11 (J), τῆν Ροωβως[θ] πόλιν; DlPa 261 compare Assyrian rêbit Ninâ, but see COT10:11.
2 רְחֹבוֺת, name of well Genesis 26:22 (J), Εὐρυχωρία (compare interpretation of 26:22); PalmerDesert 296 f. identification with er-Ruµaibeh (in Wady R.) approximately 45 miles southwest of Hebron, north of latitude 31°.
3 ׳ר הַנָּהָר, home of a king of Edom Genesis 36:37 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:48, Ροωβωθ τῆς παρὰ ποταμόν, P. τοῦ ποταμοῦ (i.e. on Euphrates ? here improbable; conjectures in Di Holz WklGeschichte. Israel i. 192).