Rehoboam
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A bottle of Champagne or Burgundy wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Rehoboam. alt-of
- 1 King of Israel after Solomon, whose folly split the kingdom in two; the father of Abijah (biblical character)
"And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen* years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess."
- 2 A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in rare use.
Example
More examples"And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen* years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess."
Etymology
After Rehoboam, Judean king, the name of which in Biblical Hebrew was רְחַבְעָם (Rəḥaḇʿām)
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