Rehoboth-ir

Ri-hoh´both-ihr´; Heb., “[the] open places of [the] city,” or “city plazas,” as, e.g., in Lam 2:12

A place built by Nimrod (in Gen 10:1). It is thus to be interpreted either as an otherwise unknown city between Nineveh and Calah or as a district of Nineveh. There are similar Akkadian expressions that support the latter interpretation.