מַרְבִּית
marbîyth · H4768 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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greater part, majority
State in which a selected group of objects is greater in number than the rest of the group
Examples1 Chronicles 12:29 From the sons of Benjamin, Saul’s kinsmen, three thousand; for until now the majority of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
2 Chronicles 30:18 For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, and Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD pardon
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increase, profit
State in which a quantity is increased beyond what is appropriate
ExamplesLeviticus 25:37 ‘You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for profit.
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greatness
State in which an event takes place with high intensity
Examples2 Chronicles 9:6 “But I did not believe their stories until I came and my own eyes saw it all. And behold, not even half of the greatness of your wisdom was reported to me. You have surpassed the report that I heard.
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increase, descendants
Literally: increase; hence: people who are born into a family
Examples1 Samuel 2:33 ‘Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar, so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- חׇכְמָהwisdom 1
- עַםpeople 1
- הֶםtheir 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רַבmany, great 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- טָהֵרto become clean, to purify, to cleanse 1
- מוּתto die 1
- שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֵצִיhalf 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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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The word denotes increase or a greater part or multitude, as the greater part of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh who ate the Passover without purifying themselves.
- Intense002001003011
- The word can denote greatness in an intensified sense, as the greatness of Solomon's wisdom, which the queen of Sheba found to exceed even the report she had heard.
- Relatives001001003012
- The word can denote the increase of a household in the sense of its offspring or descendants, as the prophecy that all the increase of Eli's house would die in the prime of life.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4768. marbith מַרְבִּית noun feminine increase, great number, greatness; — ׳מ absolute…
מַרְבִּית noun feminine increase, great number, greatness; — ׳מ absolute Lev 25:37; construct 1Sa 2:33 + 2t.; suffix מַרְבִּיתָם 1Ch 12:30 (van d. H. v.1Ch 12:29); —
1 increase, concrete:
a. of family 1Sa 2:33.
b. increment, interest, usury, Lev 25:37 (H; of food-stuffs, || נֶשֶׁךְ, of money; ׳מ of money Egyptian Aramaic, opposed to ראש principal, CookeNorth-Semitic Inscr. 404).
2 great number: of people 2Ch 30:18; with suffix = the greater part of them, 1Ch 12:30 (see above).
3 greatness, of wisdom 2Ch 9:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
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