REHOBOTH
“wide spaces.”
(a) Well dug by Isaac in the valley of Gerar. The Philistines did not claim this one, as had happened with the previous ones (Gen. 26:22).
Robinson identifies this valley with the Ruhaibeh wadi, more than 30 km southwest of Beersheba.
(b) One of the satellite cities of Nineveh (Gen. 10:11). (See NINEVEH.)
(c) Rehoboth “by the Euphrates” (Gen. 36:37; 1 Chron. 1:48). The term “Euphrates” is “river.”
Ordinarily it means the Euphrates, but here it designates another watercourse, because the passage clearly refers to the country of Edom.
This “river” is probably the Sail el-Kerahi, which empties into the Dead Sea near its southwestern end.
About 5 km to the west, on the Jebel Rihãb, is Khirbet Musrab, which must undoubtedly be identified with Rehoboth.