רְבָבָה
rᵉbâbâh · H7233 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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ten thousand, myriad
State in which a countable entity is ten thousand in number; associated with excessively high numbers by which the exact number is relatively unimportant
ExamplesGenesis 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them.”
Leviticus 26:8 five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
Deuteronomy 32:30 “How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had given them up?
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶפְרַיִםEphraim 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- נוּסto flee 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- רָדַףto pursue, to chase 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֵםthey, them 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- μυριάς myriás · G3461 · ten thousand, countless, innumerable
- Greek μυριάς renders Hebrew רְבָבָה in contexts denoting vast multitudes, specifically the ten-thousand magnitude and indefinitely large numbers, maintaining the quantitative hyperbole common to both terms.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The word means ten thousand or myriad, directly illustrated by the blessing that Rebekah's descendants "become thousands of ten thousands" (Genesis 24:60), a hundred chasing ten thousand (Leviticus 26:8), and the myriad thousands of Israel (Numbers 10:36).
- Frequency002001003009
- This domain is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which all concern large round numbers rather than recurrence.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7233. rebabah רְבָבָה noun feminine multitude, myriad, ten thousand (Köii.1.221); —…
רְבָבָה noun feminine multitude, myriad, ten thousand (Köii.1.221); — absolute ׳ר Gen 24:60 +; suffix רִבְבָתוֺ Kt 1Sa 18:7 1Sa 18:2t. (Qr רִבְבֹתָיו); plural absolute רְבָבוֺת 1Sa 18:8 construct ִרבְבוֺת Mic 6:7 +, ִרבֲבוֺת Deu 33:17; suffixsee above Qr; — myriad 10, 000: of great number of person, indefinite Gen 24:60 (J; רְבָבָה אַלְפֵי thousands of myriads), Deu 33:2(poem; קֹרֶשׁ מֵרִבְבוֺת, but see קֹרֶשׁ, near the end). Psa 3:7; ct Psa 5:10; תִשׂ אַלְפֵי ׳ִרבְבוֺת Num 10:36, compare Deu 33:17 (poem); — רְבָבָה Eze 16:7 read ᵐ5 רְבִי Co Berthol Krae; — more precisely(100, 1000), 10, 000, Jdg 20:10; opposed to 2, Deu 32:30 (poem), opposed to 100, Lev 26:8 (H), opposed to 1000, 1Sa 18:7-8, 1Sa 21:12; 1Sa 29:5; Psa 91:7; so of things, Mic 6:7.
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
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