Hebrew adjective (Aramaic) · H7229
רַב
rabrab
great
15 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 H7229is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7229
{abundant}
The King James renders it: captain, chief, great, lord, master, stout.
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 "great". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:10and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.
Ezra 4:10רַבָּ֣א
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
- great7
- the great4
- chief of2
- and chief of1
- chief1
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 |
| רַבְרַב | rabrab | great | Uses8 |
| רַבְרְבָן | rabreban | noble | Uses8 |
| רַב | rab | archer | Uses3 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- רַ֣ב2
- רַ֔ב2
- וְרַב־1
- רַ֛ב1
- רַ֖ב1
- רַב֙1
- רַ֧ב1
- רַ֥ב1
- רַב־1
- רַבָּ֣א1
- רַבָּ֔א1
- רַבָּֽא׃1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine or feminine singular7AAabsa
- adjective · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)3AAabsd/Ta
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3ANcbsc
- adjective · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AAafsd/Ta
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Ncbsc
Ezra
three uses
and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.
- רַבָּ֣אraba'adjective · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the great
Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.
- רַבָּ֔אraba'adjective · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the great
And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
- רַ֔בravadjective · masculine or feminine singulartagged: great
Daniel
twelve uses
The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
- רַ֣בravadjective · masculine or feminine singulartagged: great
When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon, Daniel replied with discretion and tact.
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: chief
As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.
- רַ֛בravadjective · masculine or feminine singulartagged: great
Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
- רַ֖בravadjective · masculine or feminine singulartagged: great
And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
- רַב֙ravadjective · masculine or feminine singulartagged: great
Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.
- וְרַב־verav-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and chief of
“O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery baffles you. So explain to me the visions I saw in my dream, and their interpretation.
- רַ֣בravnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: chief of
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- רַבְּתָ֑אrabeta'adjective · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the great
Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- רַ֔בravadjective · masculine or feminine singulartagged: great
There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your father he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners. Your own father, the king,
- רַ֧בravnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: chief of
Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
- רַבָּֽא׃raba'adjective · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the great
I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- רַ֥בravadjective · masculine or feminine singulartagged: great
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.