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1 Kings 14:21

“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.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

רְחַבְעָםRᵉchabʻâm · rekh-ab-awm'
H7346 · Hebrew
Definition
Rechabam, an Israelite king
Derivation
from H7337 (רָחַב) and H5971 (עַם); a people has enlarged;
KJV renderings
Rehoboam.
Grammar
  • וּ — conjunction
  • רְחַבְעָם֙ — proper noun
Code HC/Np
Usage
Occurs 50 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Kings 11:431 Kings 12:11 Kings 12:31 Kings 12:61 Kings 12:12

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.