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Lexicon :: Strong's H7237 - rabâ

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רַבָּה
Transliteration
rabâ
Pronunciation
rab-baw'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Fem. of רַב (H7227)
Strong’s Definitions

רַבָּה Rabbâh, rab-baw'; feminine of H7227; great; Rabbah, the name of two places in Palestine, East and West:—Rabbah, Rabbath.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H7237 in the following manner: Rabbah (13x), Rabbath (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H7237 in the following manner: Rabbah (13x), Rabbath (2x).
  1. Rabbath = "great"

    1. the capital city of the Ammonites located east of the Jordan

    2. a town in Judah; site uncertain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רַבָּה Rabbâh, rab-baw'; feminine of H7227; great; Rabbah, the name of two places in Palestine, East and West:—Rabbah, Rabbath.
STRONGS H7237: Abbreviations
רַבָּה proper name, of a location Rabba (properly great or populous, that is, city); —
1. capital of Ammonites explicitly, רַבַּת בְּנֵי עַמּוֺן 2 Samuel 12:26, 27; 2 Samuel 17:27; Deuteronomy 3:11; Jeremiah 49:2; Ezekiel 21:25; רַבָּה alone 2 Samuel 11:1 || 1 Chronicles 20:1 (twice in verse), Amos 1:14; Jeremiah 49:3; Ezekiel 25:5; Joshua 13:25 (P); with ה locative רַבָּ֑תָה 2 Samuel 12:29; in Greek Period Philadelphia, Lagonom 215, 94; 219, 82 (but Ραββατμανα Polybv. 71.4), modern ‘Ammân13½ miles northeast from Heshbon, 28½ miles east of Jordan; compare BuhlGeogr. 260;- Greek Version of the LXX Ραββαθ, Ραββα
2. הָרַבָּה city in Judah Joshua 15:60 (P), site unknown; — Greek Version of the LXX Σωθηβα, A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Αρεββα.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

3:11

Joshua

13:25; 15:60

2 Samuel

11:1; 12:26; 12:27; 12:29; 17:27

1 Chronicles

20:1

Jeremiah

49:2; 49:3

Ezekiel

21:25; 25:5

Amos

1:14

H7237

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7237 matches the Hebrew רַבָּה (rabâ),
which occurs 15 times in 14 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the [giants known as the] Rephaim. Behold, his bed frame was a bed frame of iron; is it not in [fn]Rabbah of the Ammonites? It was nine cubits (12 ft.) long and four cubits (6 ft.) wide, using the cubit of a man [the forearm to the end of the middle finger].)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer east of Rabbah;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:60 -

Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 -

Then it happened in the spring, [fn]at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all [the fighting men of] Israel, and they destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:26 -

Now Joab fought against [fn]Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27 - Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; I have even taken the city of waters.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:29 - So David gathered all the men together and went to Rabbah, then fought against it and captured it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:27 -

When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 -

Then it happened at the end of the year, [fn]at the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged and devastated the land of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem [with Bathsheba]. Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:2 -

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,

“When I will cause an alarm of war to be heard

Against Rabbah of the Ammonites;

And it [along with the high ground on which it stands] will become a desolate heap,

And its villages will be set on fire.

Then will Israel take possession of his possessors,”

Says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 -

“Wail, O [fn]Heshbon, for Ai [in Ammon] has been destroyed!

Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah!

Wrap yourselves with sackcloth and lament (cry out in grief),

And rush back and forth inside the enclosures;

For Malcam [your powerless god] will go into exile

Together with his priests and his princes.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:20 - “You shall point out a way for the [Babylonian] sword to come to Rabbah [the capital] of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - “I will make Rabbah [your chief city] a pasture for camels and [the cities of] the Ammonites a resting place for flocks [of sheep]. And you will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:14 -

“So I will kindle a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] on the wall of Rabbah [in Ammon]

And it shall devour its strongholds

Amid war cries and shouts of alarm on the day of battle,

And a tempest on the day of the whirlwind [when the enemy captures the city].

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