Category:Rehoboth

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Rehoboth - Broad places. (1.) A well in Gerar dug by Isaac (Genesis 26:22), supposed to be in Wady er-Ruheibeh, about 20 miles south of Beersheba. (2.) An ancient city on the Euphrates (Genesis 36:37; 1 Chronicles 1:48), " Rehoboth by the river." (3.) Named among the cities of Asshur (Genesis 10:11). Probably, however, the words " rehoboth'ir " are to be translated as in the Vulgate and the margin of A.V., "the streets of the city," or rather "the public square of the city", i.e., of Nineveh.