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רַב

rab

rab

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

Rendered in the KJV as

(in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).

  • 454
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 35 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 132
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 454 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 132

  • רַב־47
  • רַבִּ֔ים33
  • רַבִּ֑ים31
  • רַבִּֽים׃22
  • רַבִּ֖ים20
  • רַ֣ב14
  • רָֽב׃14
  • רַבִּ֗ים12
  • וְרַב־11
  • רַבִּים֙10
  • רַבִּ֣ים9
  • רַ֖ב8

and 120 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 72

  • many151
  • great54
  • much35
  • many [people]28
  • [the] chief of25
  • numerous19
  • and great of10
  • the great10
  • [are] many9
  • [is] great8
  • enough8
  • and many [people]5

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 24

  • adjective · masculine plural172
  • adjective · masculine singular101
  • adjective · feminine singular34
  • adjective · feminine plural30
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)28
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)13
  • adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)12
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural11
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular10
  • adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)8
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HAampa · 172
  • HAamsa · 101
  • HAafsa · 34
  • HAafpa · 30
  • HNcmsc · 28
  • HC/Aamsc · 13
  • HAafsc · 12
  • HTd/Aampa · 11
  • HC/Aamsa · 10
  • HAamsc · 8
  • HTd/Aamsa · 7
  • HC/Aampa · 6

All 454, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis13 occurrences
Exodus9 occurrences
Leviticus2 occurrences
Numbers17 occurrences
Deuteronomy22 occurrences
Joshua15 occurrences
Judges5 occurrences
1 Samuel5 occurrences
2 Samuel8 occurrences
1 Kings12 occurrences
2 Kings10 occurrences
1 Chronicles10 occurrences
2 Chronicles30 occurrences
Ezra4 occurrences
Nehemiah11 occurrences
Esther7 occurrences
Job16 occurrences
Psalms57 occurrences
Proverbs19 occurrences
Ecclesiastes9 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah24 occurrences
Jeremiah41 occurrences
Lamentations4 occurrences
Ezekiel47 occurrences
Daniel24 occurrences
Hosea3 occurrences
Joel4 occurrences
Amos6 occurrences
Jonah3 occurrences
Micah6 occurrences
Nahum1 occurrence
Habakkuk3 occurrences
Zechariah4 occurrences
Malachi2 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled רַב

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).