Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
Rehoboam
Usage: Ῥοβοάμ, ὁ indecl. (Heb. רְחַבְעָם), Rehoboam: Mat.1:7.† (AS)
Rhoboam means “Roboam” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4497 — manon (“son”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4497 Ῥοβοάμ (Rhoboam) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. Rhoboam (rhob-o-am') n/p. 1. Roboam (i.e. Rechobam), an Israelite [of Hebrew origin (H7346)] It has 45 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include roboam. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Rhoboam (rhob-o-am') n/p. 1. Roboam (i.e. Rechobam), an Israelite [of Hebrew origin (H7346)] KJV: Roboam Root(s): H7346
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Rehoboam
Usage: Ῥοβοάμ, ὁ indecl. (Heb. רְחַבְעָם), Rehoboam: Mat.1:7.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Rhoboam, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4497 (Ῥοβοάμ) appears 51 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
43 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And David took the golden bracelets which were on the servants of Hadadezer king of Zobah, and brought them to Jerusalem. And Shishak king of Egypt took them, when he went up to Jerusalem in the days of Rehoboam son of Solomon.
And there were born to Absalom three sons and one daughter, and her name was Tamar: she was a very beautiful woman, and she becomes the wife of Rehoboam son of Solomon, and she bears to him Abijah.
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it, even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon and dwelt in Egypt, he straightaway comes into his own city, into the land of Zeredah in the mount of Ephraim. And King Solomon slept with his fathers, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, And of his seed he left behind him Rehoboam, Even the foolishness of the people, and one that had no understanding, Who turned away the people through his counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Who caused Israel to sin, And showed Ephraim the way of sin:
First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4497.
And David took the golden bracelets which were on the servants of Hadadezer king of Zobah, and brought them to Jerusalem. And Shishak king of Egypt took them, when he went up to Jerusalem in the days of Rehoboam son of Solomon.
And there were born to Absalom three sons and one daughter, and her name was Tamar: she was a very beautiful woman, and she becomes the wife of Rehoboam son of Solomon, and she bears to him Abijah.
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it, even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon and dwelt in Egypt, he straightaway comes into his own city, into the land of Zeredah in the mount of Ephraim. And King Solomon slept with his fathers, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
And King Rehoboam goes to Shechem; for all Israel were coming to Shechem to make him king.
And the people spoke to King Rehoboam, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy;
And all Israel came to King Rehoboam on the third day, as the king spoke to them, saying, Return to me on the third day.
And the king answered the people harshly; and Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men which they counseled him.
And the king sent Adoram who was over the tribute; and they stoned him with stones, and he died: and King Rehoboam made haste to rise to flee to Jerusalem.
And Rehoboam went into Jerusalem, and he assembled the congregation of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and twenty thousand young men, warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to recover the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
And Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled over Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
And Rehoboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
And King Rehoboam made brazen shields instead of them; and the chiefs of the body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the king, were placed in charge over them.
And the rest of the history of Rehoboam, and all that he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
And in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam son of Rehoboam reigns over Judah.
The sons of Solomon; Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
And Solomon fell asleep, and they buried him in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
And Rehoboam came to Shechem: for all Israel came to Shechem to make him king.
And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam and all the congregation came to Rehoboam, saying,
And King Rehoboam assembled the elders that stood before his father Solomon in his lifetime, saying, How do ye counsel me to return an answer to this people?
And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, Return to me on the third day.
And the king answered harshly; and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
But the men of Israel, even those who dwelt in the cities of Judah, remained and made Rehoboam king over them.
And King Rehoboam sent to them Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. And King Rehoboam hastened to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand young men fit for war, and he waged war with Israel to recover the kingdom to Rehoboam.
Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, and to all Judah and Benjamin, saying,
And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and he built walled cities in Judea.
And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah; and Judah strengthened Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years, for he walked three years in the ways of David and Solomon.
And Rehoboam took to himself for a wife Mahalath daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and Abigail daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.
And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and all his concubines: for he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he begot twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters.
And he made Abijah the son of Maacah chief, even a leader among his brethren, for he intended to make him king.
And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had grown strong, that he forsook the commandments of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had sinned against the Lord,
And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah that were gathered to Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and said to them, Thus said the Lord, Ye have left me, and I will leave you in the hand of Shishak.
And King Rehoboam made brazen shields instead of them. And Shishak set over him captains of footmen, as keepers of the gate of the king.
So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: and Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, in the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of the children of Israel to call his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
And the acts of Rehoboam, the first and the last, behold, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and Iddo the seer, with his achievements.
And Rehoboam made war with Jeroboam all his days. And Rehoboam died with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
and there are gathered to him pestilent men, transgressors, and he has risen up against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, while Rehoboam was young and fearful in heart, and he withstood him not.
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, And of his seed he left behind him Rehoboam, Even the foolishness of the people, and one that had no understanding, Who turned away the people through his counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Who caused Israel to sin, And showed Ephraim the way of sin:
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Rhoboam (Strong's G4497) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Roboam". Rhoboam (rhob-o-am') n/p. 1. Roboam (i.e. Rechobam), an Israelite [of Hebrew origin (H7346)]
This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's G4497 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4497 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as roboam. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 43 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4497, with linked reader references where each row is available.