Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7228
רַב
rabrab
archer
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7228is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7228
an archer
The King James renders it: archer.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
rab is rendered "archer". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 16:13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
Job 16:13רַבָּ֗יו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- an archer1
- archers1
- archers his1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רַב | rab | many | Uses454 |
| רַב | rab | great | Uses15 |
| רַבְרַב | rabrab | great | Uses8 |
| רַבְרְבָן | rabreban | noble | Uses8 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רַ֥ב1
- רַבָּ֗יו1
- רַ֠בִּים1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular1HAamsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
Job
one use
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
- רַבָּ֗יוrabavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: archers his
Proverbs
one use
Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
- רַ֥בravadjective · masculine singulartagged: an archer
Jeremiah
one use
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
- רַ֠בִּיםrabimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: archers
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.