Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Hebrew Rehobhoth, literally "wide places" (Gen. xxvi:22).
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Rehoboth (, Reḥovot; lit. broad places) is the name of three Biblical places:
- A well in Gerar dug by Isaac (Gen. 26:22), supposed to be in Wady er-Ruheibeh, about 20 miles south of Beersheba. Rehoboth meaning a place of enlargement and flourishing. Isaac's servants had dug two wells before Rehoboth and the herdsmen of Gerar quarrelled with Isaac's herdsmen. So when they dug the third well and there were no quarrels Isaac named it Rehoboth saying "Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land"
- An ancient city from which came Saul, an Edomite king (Gen. 36:37; 1 Chr. 1:48), "Rehoboth by the river." Since "the River" in the Bible generally is used about Euphrates, scholars have suggested either of two sites near the junction of the Khabur River and the Euphrates. However, this would be a place far outside the Edomite territory. The river mentioned could be a river in the land of Edom, such as Wadi Zered (also known as Wadi al-Hasa). Rehoboth could possibly be identical with a site southeast of the Dead Sea.
- Rehoboth-Ir is a biblical town named in Genesis 10:11 as among those founded by either Asshur or Nimrod. Its exact geographic location is unknown. Rehoboth-Ir may possibly have been in the vicinity of the town of Nineveh. However, its name is almost identical to the Hebrew phrase "rehovot ir", meaning "streets of the town" or "public square of the town", which may refer to Nineveh itself, rather than the name of a distinct town.
Rehoboth (or Basterland) was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia) intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Baster people in the area around the town of Rehoboth, Namibia. A centrally administered local government was created in 1979. The bantustan existed until 29 July 1989, a few months prior to the Independence of Namibia.
Rehoboth, also known as Turpin Place or Lee Mansion, is a historic home located at Eldorado, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story Flemish bond brick house. A chimney rises flush with the one gable end, and a -story frame kitchen wing is attached to the other end. The interior of the house was gutted by fire in October 1916, and rebuilt. It was the family home of the second elected Governor of Maryland, Thomas Sim Lee.
Rehoboth was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Rehoboth is a historic former barn located on Aldridge Road in Chappaqua, New York, United States. It is a concrete structure that has been renovated into a house with some Gothic Revival decorative elements. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It was designed and built in the mid-19th century by newspaper editor and activist Horace Greeley as one of the agricultural experiments he dabbled in, testing whether concrete would make a good building material for farms. It was one of the first concrete structures in the country, and the first concrete barn. Greeley was so satisfied with the result he predicted that he would be remembered for it if nothing else.
Two decades after Greeley's death, his daughter Gabrielle and her husband, The Rev. Frank Clendenin, pastor of a New York City Episcopal church, commissioned architect Ralph Adams Cram to remodel it into their house, which he named Rehoboth. They lived there for the rest of their lives, the remodeled house becoming one of the centers of Chappaqua's social life as it completed its metamorphosis from country town to suburb. It has remained a private home since then.
Usage examples of "rehoboth".
The name was a common one, but Rehoboth Beach had a small year-round population, and she was given only three listings: for Stephen, Steven, and S.
She could make it to Rehoboth Beach and be home in time for a quiet supper with Doug, followed at last, she hoped, by a little fireside conversation.
It lay on a pine-forested headland that stretched out into the Atlantic between Delaware Bay to the north and Rehoboth Bay to the south.
Both sides of Rehoboth Avenue were lined with shops and restaurants, some of them boarded up and all of them closed for the season.
She could go back to Rehoboth Beach and try a door-to-door canvass of the neighbors, people Steve and Beth might have socialized with, nearby shopkeepers they patronized.
Elizabeth Logan Whiteside, the next listing read, 132 Lake Drive, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Baxter Bay was a summer tourist spot, but it was also a working fishing village, and unlike Rehoboth Beach, it was not a town in hibernation.
He crossed the Bay Bridge at Annapolis with the sun on his neck and the wind in his hair, and when he touched ground on the other side, he felt a happy little kick just to be on the same peninsula as Rehoboth Beach.
They hugged the coastline around Cape Henlopen and into the Atlantic, then cruised south along Rehoboth Beach.
Perhaps Blueskin did not care to stir up the country people against him, for the half-breed reported that the pirates were doing no harm, and that what they took from the farmers of Indian River and Rehoboth they paid for with good hard money.
It was a wonderful, exciting, happy trip, as were the week-long vacations the family now took at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Right after the announcement of his getting the job, they left to spend a week at Rehoboth Beach.
The newspaper says that our traditional Parental Laws have been officially nullified by Rehoboth, and a shooting star might break the world in two.
There was a force that pulled on him as violently as that time when as a child he had been caught in the undertow at Rehoboth Beach.
Jabez Bowen came from Rehoboth and opened his apothecary shop across the Great Bridge at the Sign of the Unicorn and Mortar, there was ceaseless talk of the drugs, acids, and metals that the taciturn recluse incessantly bought or ordered from him.