Rehoboam

See also: rehoboam

English

Etymology

After Rehoboam, Judean king, the name of which in Biblical Hebrew was רְחַבְעָם (Rəḥaḇʿām)

Noun

Rehoboam (plural Rehoboams)

1. 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

1. King of Israel after Solomon, whose folly split the kingdom in two; the father of Abijah (biblical character)
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.

2. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in rare use.

Translations

Judean king

• Afrikaans: Rehabeam m
• Armenian: Ռովոյամ m (Ṙovoyam)
• Basque: Roboam m
• Belarusian: Раваам m (Ravaam)
• Breton: Rehovam m
• Bulgarian: Робоам m (Roboam)
• Catalan: Roboam m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羅波安 / 罗波安 m

  Hakka: Lò-pô-ôn m

  Mandarin: 羅波安 / 罗波安 m

• Czech: Rechabeám m
• Danish: Rehabeam m
• Dutch: Rechabeam m
• Esperanto: Rehoboam m
• Finnish: Rehabeam m
• French: Roboam m
• Galician: Roboam m
• German: Rehabeam
• Greek: Ροβοάμ (el) m (Rovoám)

  Ancient Greek: Ροβοάμ m (Roboám)

• Hebrew: רְחַבְעָם m (Rəḥaḇʿām)
• Hungarian: Roboám
• Indonesian: Rehabeam m
• Italian: Roboamo m
• Japanese: レハブアム m (Rehabuamu)
• Korean: 르호보암 m (reuhoboam)
• Latin: Roboāmus m
• Malagasy: Rehôbôama m
• Norwegian: Rehabeam m
• Persian: رحبعام m
• Polish: Roboam m
• Portuguese: Roboão m
• Russian: Ровоам m (Rovoam)
• Spanish: Roboam m
• West Frisian: Rechabeäm m
• Western Panjabi: رحبعام m (rḥbʻām)