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# רְחֹבוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7344

**Rehoboth** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Rehoboth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7344/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְחֹבוֹת: pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7344/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. loc. רְחֹבֹת עִיר near Nineveh Gn 10:11 (J), τῆν Ροωβως\[θ\] πόλιν; DlPa 261 cf. Assyrian rêbit Ninâ, but v. COT Gn 10:11. רְחֹבוֹת, name of well Gn 26:22 (J), Εὐρυχωρία (cf. interpr. v 22); Palmer Desert 296 f. identif. with er-Ruḥaibeh (in Wady R.) c. 45 m. SW. of Hebron, N. of lat. 31°. ר׳ הַנָּהָר, home of a king of Edom Gn 36:37 (P) = 1 Ch 1:48, Ροωβωθ τῆς παρὰ ποταμόν, Ρ. τοῦ ποταμοῦ (i.e. on Euphrates? here improb.; conj. in Di Holz WklGesch. Isr. i. 192).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rehoboth (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.37/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת שַׂמְלָ֑ה וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו שָׁא֖וּל מֵרְחֹב֥וֹת הַנָּהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Samlah and he.reigned in place.of.him Shaul from Rehoboth the River

*JPS 1917:* And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.

[1 Chronicles 1:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.48/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת שַׂמְלָ֑ה וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו שָׁא֖וּל מֵרְחֹב֥וֹת הַנָּהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Samlah and he.reigned in place.of.him Shaul from Rehoboth the river

*JPS 1917:* And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7344.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7344/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).