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Lexicon :: Strong's H7227 - raḇ

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רַב
Transliteration
raḇ
Pronunciation
rab
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Part of Speech
adjective, adverb, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted from רָבַב (H7231)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2099a,2099b

Strong’s Definitions

רַב rab, rab; by contracted from H7231; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality):—(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).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 458x

The KJV translates Strong's H7227 in the following manner: many (190x), great (118x), much (36x), captain (24x), more (12x), long (10x), enough (9x), multitude (7x), mighty (5x), greater (4x), greatly (3x), miscellaneous (40x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 458x
The KJV translates Strong's H7227 in the following manner: many (190x), great (118x), much (36x), captain (24x), more (12x), long (10x), enough (9x), multitude (7x), mighty (5x), greater (4x), greatly (3x), miscellaneous (40x).
adjective
  1. much, many, great

    1. much

    2. many

    3. abounding in

    4. more numerous than

    5. abundant, enough

    6. great

    7. strong

    8. greater than

      adverb
    9. much, exceedingly

      masculine noun
  2. captain, chief

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רַב rab, rab; by contracted from H7231; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality):—(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).
STRONGS H7227: Abbreviations
I. רַב 429 adjective much, many, great; — masculine singular absolute ר׳ Genesis 24:25+, רָ֑ב Genesis 33:9+, also רָ֛ב 2 Chronicles 20:2 ב֖ 2 Chronicles 28:8, רָב֨ Ezra 10:13, etc.; construct תַב Exodus 34:6 +; feminine singular רַבָּה Numbers 11:33 +; construct רַבַּת Ezekiel 22:5 + רַבָּ֫תִי (Ges §90 k 1) Lamentations 1:1 (twice in verse); masculine plural absolute רַבִּים Exodus 23:2 (twice in verse)+, construct see II. רַב; feminine plural absolute רַבּוֺת Genesis 30:43 +; — [often both as predicate and as attributive; as attributive preceding noun (influence of usage for numerals ? KöSynt.§334 k Ges§ 132 b): רַב Isaiah 63:7; Psalm 145:7 (but read probably רֹב, רָבֿ; in Isaiah 21:7 ר׳ is predicate), רַבּים Jeremiah 16:16; Psalm 32:10; Psalm 89:51 (on context Bö Bae, also Hup), Proverbs 7:26; 1 Chronicles 28:5, רַבּוֺת Nehemiah 9:28; Proverbs 31:29]; —
1. (often opposed to מְעַט)
a.
(1) much: of substances, gold 1 Kings 10:2; Psalm 19:11, silver (money) 2 Kings 12:11= 2 Chronicles 24:11, bronze 1 Chronicles 18:8, wine Esther 1:7; of other quantities, e.g. spoil 2 Samuel 3:22, property 2 Chronicles 32:29, seed Deuteronomy 28:38, etc.; שֶׁיִּהְיוּ רַב Ecclesiastes 6:3b, be it much that his days amount to;
(2) especially of collectives, numerous, עַם־רַב Joshua 11:4; 2 Samuel 13:34, רַבָּה עֲבֻדָּה Genesis 26:14; Job 1:3, רַב מִקְנֶה Deuteronomy 3:19 +, etc.
b. plural many: person Exodus 5:5; Judges 8:30; Judges 9:40; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 11:1+, things Genesis 30:43; Amos 5:12; Deuteronomy 31:17 +; noun omitted רַבּוֺת Daniel 11:41 (that is, lands; read רִבּוֺת myriads Kmp Bev Behrm Marti Prince); יָמִים רֵבִּים many days (a long time) Genesis 21:34; Genesis 37:24 + 28 times, שָׁנִים רַבּוֺת Nehemiah 9:30; Ecclesiastes 6:3a, אִם עוֺר רַבּוֺת בַּשָּׁנִים Leviticus 25:51; רַבּוֺת עִתִּים Nehemiah 9:28 many times (see above) = רַבּוֺת פְּעָמִים Psalm 106:43; Ecclesiastes 7:22; מַכָּה רַבָּה Deuteronomy 25:3 many blows; מַיִם רַבִּים many waters Numbers 20:11 Numbers 24:7 + 27 times, compare Isaiah 8:7; etc.
c. רַב as substantive collective person Exodus 19:21, also (opposed to מְעַט) 1 Samuel 14:6; Numbers 13:18; Numbers 26:54, 56; Numbers 33:54; Numbers 35:8; so רַבַּת (Ges§ 130a) 2 Chronicles 30:17, 18, and (thing; =much) Ezekiel 24:12; רַב construct before abstract (= רֹב) Isaiah 21:7; Isaiah 63:7; Psalm 145:7; especially plural רַבִּים of person Exodus 23:2 (twice in verse) + 37 times + בַּתרַֿבִּים Cant 7:5.
†d. construct= abounding in, רַב־בְּרָכוֹת Proverbs 28:20, רַבחֶֿסֶר (see I. חֶסֶד 3), רַב־כֹּחַ Psalm 147:5, רַבמְֿאֵרוֺת Proverbs 28:27, רַב הַמְּהוּמָה Ezekiel 22:5, רַב־נוֹצָה Ezekiel 17:7, רַב־הָעֲלִילִיָּה Jeremiah 32:19, רַב־פְּעָלִים 2 Samuel 23:20= 1 Chronicles 11:22, רַב־פָּ֑שַׁע Proverbs 29:22 רַבתְּֿבוּנָה Proverbs 14:29; רַבַּת אוֺצָרֹת Jeremiah 51:13, רַבַּת בָּנִים 1 Samuel 2:5 רַבָּ֫תִי עָם Lamentations 1:1 (Ges§ 90l).
†e. + מִן compare= more numerous than Exodus 1:9; Numbers 22:15; Joshua 10:11; Judges 16:30; 2 Kings 6:16; Isaiah 54:1; 1 Chronicles 24:4; 2 Chronicles 32:7; Daniel 11:13; followed by infinitive, too many to Genesis 36:7; Judges 7:2 (compare Judges 7:4); see also following
†f. רַב =abundant, enough Genesis 24:25; Genesis 33:9; as exclamation enough! Genesis 45:28; 2 Samuel 24:16 = 1 Chronicles 21:15; 1 Kings 19:4, so (+ מִן infinitive) Exodus 9:28 (מִן 6d); רַבלָֿךְ (with implication of excess) Deuteronomy 3:26 (let it) suffice thee! so רַבלָֿכֶם Ezekiel 45:9, also Numbers 16:3, 7= ye assume too much ! + infinitive it is enough for you to Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 2:3 (i.e. you have done it enough), so + מִן infinitive 1 Kings 12:28, מִן substantive Ezekiel 44:6.
†g. as adverb much, exceedingly (only Psalms), רַב Psalm 123:3, רָֹב Psalm 18:15 (Hup De Che and others; HPS 2 Samuel 22:15 conjectures רָמָה omits || 2 Samuel 22:15); רַבָּה Psalm 62:3; Psalm 78:15; Psalm 89:8 (Greek Version of the LXX. Bae רַב הוּא); רַבַּת (Aramaism, compare Syriac bdb091301, bdb091302, Nö§ 155 A WSG 135) Psalm 65:10; Psalm 120:6 (=long enough), Psalm 123:4; Psalm 129:1; Psalm 129:2;
2. less often great:
a. of space 1 Samuel 26:13, the deep Amos 7:4; Genesis 7:11; Isaiah 51:10; Psalm 36:7(figurative), city Lamentations 1:1 (רַ֫בָּתִי בַגּוֺיִם Ges § 90 l), — see also צִירוֺן, חֲמָת; —plague Numbers 11:33, empire Esther 1:20 goodness Psalm 31:20, wickedness Genesis 6:5, etc.
b. specifically strong (opposed to אֵין כֹּחַ) 2 Chronicles 14:10; רַב לְהוֺשִׁיעַ Isaiah 63:1 so רַבִּים as substantive Isaiah 53:12 (|| עֲצוּמִים).
†c. major natu Genesis 25:23 (opposed to צָעִיר); רַבּים as substantive grandœvi [grandævi ?], Job 32:9.
†d. + מִן compare greater than Deuteronomy 7:1, 17; Deuteronomy 9:14; Deuteronomy 20:1 too great for Joshua 19:9; 1 Kings 19:7Proverbs 26:10 is hopelessly corrupt, see Toy.

II. רַב 49 noun masculine chief (Assyrian-Babylonian influence, compare rab DlHWB 609 b; Biblical Aramic רַב); — construct ר׳ Jeremiah 39:9 +; plural construct רַבֵּי [H7249 Jeremiah 39:13]; Jeremiah 41:1 (but see below); — especially רַבֿ טַבָּחִים chief of guardsmen (see טַבָּח), only as title of Babylonian officer Jeremiah 30:9, 10 + 15 times Jeremiah, 7 times || 2 Kings 25 (compare שַׁר הַט׳ in Gen [J E]); also † רַב הַחֹבֵל Jonah 1:6 chief of the sailors, i.e. captain; † in general כָּלרַֿב בֵּיתוֺ Esther 1:8, † רַ־סָרִיסָיו Daniel 1:3 (see סָרִיס), and so רַבֵּי מֶלֶךְ בָּבֶל Jeremiah 39:13, רַבֵּי הַמֶּלֶךְ Jeremiah 41:1 (late gloss; omitted by Greek Version of the LXX and || 2 Kings 25:25, so Hi Gf Gie). † The following titles of Assyrian -Babylonian officers are probably loan-words in Hebrew: רַב־מָ֑ג [H7249 Jeremiah 39:3], 13 usually chief soothsayer (see מָ֑ג), but = rab-mugi [? chief of princes] PinchesHast. DB. BAB-MAG;
[H7249 רַב־סָרִיס (compare Old Aramaic [Nineveh] רב סרס Lzb366), 2 Kings 18:17 (Assyrian; not in || [H7262 Isaiah 36:2]), Jeremiah 39:3, 13 (Babylonian), usually chief eunuch, but = rabû-ša-rêši, chief of the heads (the principal men) WklUnters. x. altor. Geschichte. 1889, Excurs. v, p. 138 (actually found as rubû-ša-ri-ešu PinchesAcad June 25,1892, 618), PinchesHast. DB. RAB-SARIS];
[H7262 רַב־שָׁקֵה (van d. H. רַבְשָׁקֵה) chief of the officers (?) (so probably Assyrian rab-ŠAḲ; šaḳû = high one; COT 2 Kings 18:17] KBii. 23 DlHWB 685 a TieleBab.-As. Geschichte. 497. 513 PinchesHast. DB. iv 191), 2 Kings 18:17, 19, 26, 27, 28, 37; 2 Kings 19:4, 8 = Isaiah 36:2, 4, 11, 12, 13 (twice in verse); Isaiah 36:22; 37:4, 8.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:5; 7:11; 21:34; 24:25; 24:25; 25:23; 26:14; 30:43; 30:43; 33:9; 33:9; 36:7; 37:24; 45:28

Exodus

1:9; 5:5; 9:28; 19:21; 23:2; 23:2; 34:6

Leviticus

25:51

Numbers

11:33; 11:33; 13:18; 16:3; 16:7; 20:11; 22:15; 24:7; 26:54; 26:56; 33:54; 35:8

Deuteronomy

1:6; 2:3; 3:19; 3:26; 7:1; 7:17; 9:14; 20:1; 25:3; 28:38; 31:17

Joshua

10:11; 11:4; 19:9

Judges

7:2; 7:4; 8:30; 9:40; 16:30

1 Samuel

2:5; 14:6; 26:13

2 Samuel

3:22; 13:34; 22:15; 22:15; 23:20; 24:16

1 Kings

4:20; 10:2; 11:1; 12:28; 19:4; 19:7

2 Kings

6:16; 12:11; 25:25

1 Chronicles

11:22; 18:8; 21:15; 24:4; 28:5

2 Chronicles

14:10; 20:2; 24:11; 28:8; 30:17; 30:18; 32:7; 32:29

Ezra

10:13

Nehemiah

9:28; 9:28; 9:30

Esther

1:7; 1:8; 1:20

Job

1:3; 32:9

Psalms

18:15; 19:11; 31:20; 32:10; 36:7; 62:3; 65:10; 78:15; 89:8; 89:51; 106:43; 120:6; 123:3; 123:4; 129:1; 129:2; 145:7; 145:7; 147:5

Proverbs

7:26; 14:29; 26:10; 28:20; 28:27; 29:22; 31:29

Ecclesiastes

6:3; 6:3; 7:22

Song of Songs

7:5

Isaiah

8:7; 21:7; 21:7; 51:10; 53:12; 54:1; 63:1; 63:7; 63:7

Jeremiah

16:16; 30:9; 30:10; 32:19; 39:9; 39:13; 39:13; 41:1; 41:1; 51:13

Lamentations

1:1; 1:1; 1:1

Ezekiel

17:7; 22:5; 22:5; 24:12; 44:6; 45:9

Daniel

1:3; 11:13; 11:41

Amos

5:12; 7:4

Jonah

1:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7227 matches the Hebrew רַב (raḇ),
which occurs 461 times in 443 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 9 / 9 (Dan 11:26–Mal 2:8)

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:26 - Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many H7227 shall fall down slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: H7227 yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many H7227 shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39 - Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, H7227 and shall divide the land for gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:40 - And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many H7227 ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many H7227 countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. H7227
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:2 - And many H7227 of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many H7227 to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:4 - But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many H7227 shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:10 - Many H7227 shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:3 - And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many H7227 days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:4 - For the children of Israel shall abide many H7227 days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great H7227 hatred.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great H7227 people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 - And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: H7227 for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:13 - And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great H7227 kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:13 - Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. H7227
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:9 - Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great H7227 tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:15 - And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great H7227 houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:12 - For I know your manifold H7227 transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:2 - Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: H7227 then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater H7227 than your border?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4 - Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great H7227 deep, and did eat up a part.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:3 - And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many H7227 dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - So the shipmaster H7227 came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:2 - And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great H7227 kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much H7227 cattle?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:2 - And many H7227 nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 - And he shall judge among many H7227 people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:11 - Now also many H7227 nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 - Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many H7227 people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many H7227 people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many H7227 people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:12 - Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, H7227 yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8 - Because thou hast spoiled many H7227 nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:10 - Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many H7227 people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 - Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great H7227 waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:11 - And many H7227 nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:20 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many H7227 cities:
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:22 - Yea, many H7227 people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great H7227 tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:6 - The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many H7227 away from iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:8 - But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many H7227 to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

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