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# רְחֹב

Biblical Hebrew

**Rehob** — used 7 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

Rehob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d7_5b9_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְחוֹב²: n.pr. loc.: [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d7_5b9_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. Πααβ, Ποωβ, etc.: (cf. LagBN 56 f.) loc.: towards Hamath, רְחוֹב 2 S 10:8 (𝔊L Βαιθρααβ), רְחֹב Nu 13:21 (P); = בֵּית ר׳ q.v. p. 112 (also 𝔊 1 S 14:47 Βαιθεωρ, 𝔊L Βαιθροωβι). רְחֹב in Asher: (1) Jos 19:28 (P); (2) \[perhaps = (1)\], v 30 (P), Ju 1:31, Levit. city Jos 21:31 (P) = 1 Ch 6:60; Egypt. Raḥubu, N. of Kishon, WMMAs. u. Eur. 153. m.: Aramaic name, רְחֹב 2 S 8:3, 12. post-exilic Levite, רְחוֹב Ne 10:12.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rehob (7).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.28/#tree)

וְעֶבְרֹ֥ן וּרְחֹ֖ב וְחַמּ֣וֹן וְקָנָ֑ה עַ֖ד צִיד֥וֹן רַבָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah to Sidon great

*JPS 1917:* and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon.

[Joshua 19:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.30/#tree)

וְעֻמָ֥ה וַאֲפֵ֖ק וּרְחֹ֑ב עָרִ֛ים עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁתַּ֖יִם וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Umah and Aphek and Rehob cities twenty and two and villages their

*JPS 1917:* Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob; twenty and two cities with their villages.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d7_5b9_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d7_5b9_5d1/): 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).