Genesis 26:22 - Exposition

And he removed from thence (yielding that too), and digged another well; and for that they strove not (perhaps as being beyond the boundaries of Gerar): and he called the name of it Reheboth ;—i.e. "Wide spaces" (hence "streets," Genesis 19:2 ); from רָחַב , to be or become broad; conjectured to have been situated in the Wady Ruhaibeh , about eight and a half hours to the south of Beersheba, where are still found a well named Bir-Rohebeh and ruins of a city of the same name— and he said, For now the Lord hath made room (literally, hath made a broad space ) for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.