Meaning
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; 1Chronicles 1:48) The affix "by the river" fixes the situation of Rehoboth as on the Euphrates.
