Bible Location
Meaning: breadth; space; extent · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Rehob was a northern place-name associated with the approaches to Lebo-hamath and with the wider Beth-rehob tradition. It is important because it belongs to Israel's far northern horizon. First appears in Num 13:21.1
AI summary: Rehob matters because it helps define the outer northern frame of the land and its neighboring powers. The name appears in exploration and military contexts, giving substance to the geography beyond the central heartland. The cross references present Rehob as a northern breadth-place of border awareness and regional power.1
The same, probably, as Beth-rehob (2 Sam. 10:6, 8; Judg. 18:28), a place in the north of Palestine (Num. 13:21). It is now supposed to be represented by the castle of Hunin, south-west of Dan, on the road from Hamath into Coele-Syria. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.