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# רְחֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7340

**Rehob** — 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

Rehob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7340/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְחוֹב²: n.pr. loc.: [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7340/#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, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: of Rehob (2); Rehob (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.12/#tree)

מִיכָ֥א רְח֖וֹב חֲשַׁבְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Mica Rehob Hashabiah

*JPS 1917:* Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah;

[2 Samuel 8:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.3/#tree)

וַיַּ֣ךְ דָּוִ֔ד אֶת־הֲדַדְעֶ֥זֶר בֶּן־רְחֹ֖ב מֶ֣לֶךְ צוֹבָ֑ה בְּלֶכְתּ֕וֹ לְהָשִׁ֥יב יָד֖וֹ בִּֽנְהַר־פְּרָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and he.defeated David (et) Hadadezer the.son of.Rehob the.king of.Zobah when went he to restore hand his at the.river of.Euphrates

*JPS 1917:* David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to establish his dominion at the river Euphrates.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7340.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7340/): 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).