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reÌ„Ì-hō´both, reÌ„Ì-hō´boÌ„th (רחבות, rehoÌ„bhoÌ„th, “broad placesâ€; ΕὐÏυχωÏιÌα, EuruchoÌ„rıÌa): One of the wells dug by Isaac (). It is probably the Rubuta of the Tell el-Amarna Letters (Petrie, numbers 256, 260; see also The Expository Times, XI, 239 (Konig), 377 (Sayce)), and it is almost certainly identical with the ruin RuhÌ£aibeh, 8 hours Southwest of Beersheba. Robinson (BR, I, 196-97) describes the ruins of the ancient city as thickly covering a “level tract of 10 to 12 acres in extentâ€; “many of the dwellings had each its cistern, cut in the solid rockâ€; “once this must have been a city of not less than 12,000 or 15,000 inhabitants. Now it is a perfect field of ruins, a scene of unutterable desolation, across which the passing stranger can with difficulty find his way.†Huntington (Palestine and Its Transformation, 124) describes considerable remains of a suburban population extending both to the North and to the South of this once important place.