מִרְבָּה
mirbâh · H4767 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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much, many
State in which objects are many in quantity
ExamplesEzekiel 23:32 “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; Because it contains much.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לַעַגscoffing 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- הָמוֹן hâmôwn · H1995 · noise, uproar, tumult
- Hebrew noun meaning multitude or abundance, often denoting a large quantity or great number, semantically overlapping with the quantitative sense of 'much.'
Contrasting words 1 word
- מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ · H4592 · few, little, small
- Standard Hebrew lexical opposite of 'much/many,' expressing small quantity or number; the pair רַב/מְעַט (much/little) is a common biblical antonym set.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πολύς polýs · G4183 · many, a great deal of, a great number of
- Direct Greek equivalent for the quantitative sense 'much/many,' the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew רבה roots and the primary Greek lexeme for expressing abundance and large quantity.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Quantity002001001046
- The word denotes "much," a quantity greater than the ordinary amount.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4767. mirbah מִרְבָּה noun feminine much; — only ׳מ לְהָכִיל Eze 23:32 much to contain,…
מִרְבָּה noun feminine much; — only ׳מ לְהָכִיל Eze 23:32 much to contain, i.e. which contains much; but read מַרָבָּה Hiph`il Participle Hi-Sm Co Berthol Krae (see √ Hiph`il 1 d (1)).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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