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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. Isaiah 53:11לָֽרַבִּ֑ים · many
    After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
  2. Isaiah 53:12בָרַבִּ֗ים · with the great; רַבִּ֣ים · of many
    Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
  3. Isaiah 54:1רַבִּ֧ים · more
    “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
  4. Isaiah 54:13וְרַ֖ב · and great
    Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.
  5. Isaiah 63:1רַ֥ב · mighty
    Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
  6. Isaiah 63:7וְרַב־ · the many
    I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
  7. Jeremiah 3:1רַבִּ֔ים · with many
    “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
  8. Jeremiah 11:15הָֽרַבִּ֔ים · so many
    What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
  9. Jeremiah 12:10רַבִּים֙ · Many
    Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
  10. Jeremiah 13:6רַבִּ֑ים · Many
    Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
  11. Jeremiah 13:9הָרָֽב׃ · the great
    “This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
  12. Jeremiah 16:16רַבִּ֛ים · many; לְרַבִּ֣ים · for many
    But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
  13. Jeremiah 20:10רַבִּים֮ · of many
    For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
  14. Jeremiah 22:8רַבִּ֔ים · And many
    And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
  15. Jeremiah 25:14רַבִּ֔ים · many
    For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
  16. Jeremiah 27:7רַבִּ֔ים · then many
    All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
  17. Jeremiah 28:8רַבּוֹת֙ · many
    The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
  18. Jeremiah 32:14רַבִּֽים׃ס · for a long
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
  19. Jeremiah 32:19וְרַ֖ב · and mighty
    …the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
  20. Jeremiah 35:7רַבִּים֙ · a long
    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
  21. Jeremiah 36:32רַבִּ֖ים · And many
    Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
  22. Jeremiah 37:16רַבִּֽים׃פ · a long time
    So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
  23. Jeremiah 39:9רַב־ · captain
    Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
  24. Jeremiah 39:10רַב־
    But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
  25. Jeremiah 39:11רַב־ · captain
    Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, saying,
  26. Jeremiah 39:13רַב־ · captain; רַבֵּ֥י · the captains
    So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the captains of the king of Babylon
  27. Jeremiah 40:1רַב־ · captain
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
  28. Jeremiah 40:2רַב־ · The captain
    The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,
  29. Jeremiah 40:5רַב־ · Then the captain
    But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.
  30. Jeremiah 41:1וְרַבֵּ֨י · chief officers
    In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.
  31. Jeremiah 41:10רַב־ · captain
    Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
  32. Jeremiah 41:12רַבִּ֖ים · the great
    …they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.
  33. Jeremiah 43:6רַב־ · captain
    …the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
  34. Jeremiah 50:41רַבִּ֔ים · and many
    Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.
  35. Jeremiah 51:13רַבִּ֔ים · many; רַבַּ֖ת · rich
    You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
  36. Jeremiah 51:55רַבִּ֔ים · like great
    For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
  37. Jeremiah 52:12רַב־ · captain
    On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
  38. Jeremiah 52:14רַב־ · the captain
    And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
  39. Jeremiah 52:15רַב־ · captain
    Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
  40. Jeremiah 52:16רַב־ · captain
    But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
  41. Jeremiah 52:19רַב־ · The captain
    The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
  42. Jeremiah 52:24רַב־ · The captain
    The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
  43. Jeremiah 52:26רַב־ · captain
    Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
  44. Jeremiah 52:30רַב־ · captain
    …in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
  45. Lamentations 1:1רַבָּ֣תִי · once so full; רַּבָּ֣תִי · She who was great
    How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.