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רַב

ravmanyHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun455 occurrences35 books437 verses

Definition

by contracted from H7231; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Traditional renderings: (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).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders רַב:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

455 total
  1. Deuteronomy 7:1רַבִּ֥ים · larger
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  2. Deuteronomy 7:17רַבִּ֛ים · are greater
    You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
  3. Deuteronomy 9:14וָרָ֖ב · and greater
    Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
  4. Deuteronomy 15:6רַבִּ֗ים · to many; רַבִּ֔ים · over many
    When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
  5. Deuteronomy 20:1רַ֣ב · larger
    When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
  6. Deuteronomy 20:19רַבִּ֜ים · for an extended
    When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
  7. Deuteronomy 25:3רַבָּ֔ה
    He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
  8. Deuteronomy 26:5וָרָֽב׃ · and numerous
    …and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
  9. Deuteronomy 28:12רַבִּ֔ים · to many
    The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
  10. Deuteronomy 28:38רַ֖ב · much
    You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
  11. Deuteronomy 31:17רַבּ֖וֹת · and many
    On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
  12. Deuteronomy 31:21רַבּוֹת֮ · many
    And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
  13. Joshua 10:11רַבִּ֗ים · and more
    As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
  14. Joshua 11:4רָ֕ב · as numerous; רַב־ · along with a great number
    So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.
  15. Joshua 11:8רַבָּ֗ה · Greater
    …and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
  16. Joshua 11:18רַבִּ֗ים · for a long period
    Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time.
  17. Joshua 17:14רָ֔ב · have many
    Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
  18. Joshua 17:15רַ֤ב · have so many
    Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”
  19. Joshua 17:17רַ֣ב · “You have many
    So Joshua said to the house of Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—“You have many people and great strength. You shall not have just one allotment,
  20. Joshua 19:9רַ֣ב · too large
    The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the territory of Judah, because the share for Judah’s descendants was too large for them. So the Simeonites received an inheritance within Judah’s portion.
  21. Joshua 19:28רַבָּֽה׃ · far as Greater
    It went on to Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon.
  22. Joshua 22:3רַבִּ֔ים
    All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.
  23. Joshua 22:8רַבִּ֜ים · with your great; רַב־ · with immense
    …saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”
  24. Joshua 23:1רַבִּ֔ים · A long
    A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,
  25. Joshua 24:7רַבִּֽים׃ · for a long
    So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
  26. Judges 7:2רַ֗ב · too many
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
  27. Judges 7:4רָב֒ · too many
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go. But if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”
  28. Judges 8:30רַבּ֖וֹת · many
    Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
  29. Judges 9:40רַבִּ֖ים · And many [Shechemites]
    …but Abimelech pursued him, and Gaal fled before him. And many Shechemites fell wounded all the way to the entrance of the gate.
  30. Judges 16:30רַבִּ֕ים · more
    Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
  31. 1 Samuel 2:5וְרַבַּ֥ת · but she who has many
    The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
  32. 1 Samuel 12:17רַבָּה֙ · what a great
    Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
  33. 1 Samuel 14:6בְּרַ֖ב · whether by many
    Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”
  34. 1 Samuel 14:19וָרָ֑ב פ · increase
    While Saul was talking to the priest, the commotion in the Philistine camp continued to increase. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
  35. 1 Samuel 26:13רַ֥ב · there was a wide
    Then David crossed to the other side and stood atop the mountain at a distance; there was a wide gulf between them.
  36. 2 Samuel 3:22רָ֖ב · a great
    Just then David’s soldiers and Joab returned from a raid, bringing with them a great plunder. But Abner was not with David in Hebron, because David had sent him on his way in peace.
  37. 2 Samuel 13:34רַ֜ב · many
    Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
  38. 2 Samuel 14:2רַבִּ֔ים · a long
    So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
  39. 2 Samuel 15:12וָרָ֖ב · increasing
    While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.
  40. 2 Samuel 22:17רַבִּֽים׃ · out of deep
    He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
  41. 2 Samuel 23:20רַב־ · a man of many
    And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.
  42. 2 Samuel 24:14רַבִּ֣ים · great
    David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
  43. 2 Samuel 24:16רַ֔ב · Enough
    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  44. 1 Kings 2:38רַבִּֽים׃ס · for a long
    “The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.
  45. 1 Kings 3:8רָ֕ב
    Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
  46. 1 Kings 3:11רַבִּ֗ים · long
    So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—
  47. 1 Kings 4:20רַבִּ֔ים
    The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.