Dict: smith - REHOBOTH

smith:

REHOBOTH - R>@ - (wide places , i.e. streets). The third of the series of wells dug by Isaac, kjv@Genesis:26:22) in the Philistines’ territory, lately identified as er
- Ruheibeh , 16 miles south of Beersheba. One of the four cities built by Asshur, or by Nimrod in Asshur, according as this difficult passage is translated. kjv@Genesis:10:11) Nothing certain is known of its position. The city of a certain Saul or Shaul, one of the early kings of the Edomites. kjv@Genesis:36:37; kjv@1Chronicles:1:48) The affix "by the river" fixes the situation of Rehoboth as on the Euphrates.