Bible Names

Rehob: meaning of the name

Rehob means “breadth; space; extent.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Rehob in Hebrew and Greek

רְחֹב H7340

Rᵉchôb (rekh-obe') — Rechob, the name of a place in Syria, also of a Syrian and an Israelite

or רְחוֹב; the same as H7339 (רְחֹב);

People named Rehob in the Bible

Places named Rehob

Rehob in Scripture

“Rehob” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 13:21

    So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

  • Joshua 19:28

    And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;

  • Joshua 19:30

    Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.

  • Joshua 21:31

    Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.

  • Judges 1:31

    Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:

  • 2 Samuel 8:3

    David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.

  • 2 Samuel 8:12

    Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • 2 Samuel 10:8

    And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish–tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.