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English
Etymology
After Rehoboam, Judean king, the name of which in Biblical Hebrew was רְחַבְעָם (Rəḥaḇʿām)
Noun
Rehoboam (plural Rehoboams)
- A bottle of Champagne or Burgundy wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
Usage notes
A Bordeaux wine bottle with this volume is called a Jeroboam.
Proper noun
Rehoboam
- King of Israel after Solomon, whose folly split the kingdom in two; the father of Abijah (biblical character)
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- 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.
- A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in rare use.
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