Rehob
re.chov is a proper name used chiefly for named towns and boundaries, and also in personal and military-group references.
The attested use is chiefly as the name of a locality: it occurs in city lists, a boundary description, and a list of inhabitants. It also names the father of Hadadezer and appears with Aram of Zobah in a battle account; one occurrence stands in a sequence of names whose individual correspondence is unclear in the translation.
Senses in use
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Named locality in lists and boundaries · dominant
The proper noun occurs among named places: in Joshua 19:28 the APB renders a sequence including "Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah," while Joshua 21:31 places it among cities given with pasture land. Numbers 13:21 uses it as the extent of the land explored, and Judges 1:31 includes it among places whose inhabitants Asher did not dispossess; 1 Chronicles 6:60 is likewise a city-list context, although the APB wording does not visibly isolate this name.
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Personal name in Hadadezer's lineage · common
In 2 Samuel 8:3 and 2 Samuel 8:12, the proper noun identifies Hadadezer as "son of Rehob" in the APB's account of David's conflict and the listed spoil. Nehemiah 10:12 contains the form in a sequence rendered "Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah," so the translation does not make its individual contribution clear there.
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Named entity in a battle coalition · rare
In 2 Samuel 10:8, the proper noun stands alongside "Aram of Zobah" as forces positioned separately in the field. The clause shows a named entity in the battle setting, but the supplied wording does not establish more precisely whether the name denotes a place or its associated force.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the name directly in location lists, the land-survey boundary, and the battle account, and renders it in the lineage phrase "son of Rehob." In 1 Chronicles 6:60 and Nehemiah 10:12, the supplied translation does not visibly identify the term's individual English correspondence.