Given name
Roboam
“the people are enlarged”·“people of width”
Roboam is used as a given name.
Original Hebrewרחבעם
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Roboam means “the people are enlarged” or “people of width.”
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Where it comes from
Roboam is a biblical name from Hebrew.
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How it developed
From the Hebrew verb rahab (רחב), “to be wide,” and the Hebrew noun 'am (עם), “people.”
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In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Roboam appears in 1 Kings 11:43.
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Roboam’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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