רְבָה
rᵉbâh · H7236 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to become great, to be great, to make great
To achieve or grant greatness in status, power, or authority
ExamplesDaniel 4:22 it is you, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your majesty has become great and reached to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
Daniel 2:48 Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon, and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.
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to grow, to be long
Literally: to become numerous; hence: process by which humans, animals, and plants increase in size and maturity
ExamplesDaniel 4:11 ‘The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.
Daniel 4:20 ‘The tree that you saw, which became large and grew strong, whose height reached to the sky and was visible to all the earth,
Daniel 4:33 “Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 6 groups
- אִילָןtree 1
- מֶלֶךְking 1
- רְבוּgreatness 1
- שְׂעַרhair 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as+ נְשַׁרeagle 1
- לto/for+ דָּנִיֵּאלDaniel 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
- גָּדַל gâdal · H1431 · to be large, to grow large, to cause to grow
- The most common Hebrew verb for 'grow' and 'become/make great.' Semantically parallel to רְבָה with overlapping senses of growth and greatness, though גָּדַל is far more frequent and broadly used.
In the other Testament 2 words
- αὐξάνω auxánō · G837 · to increase, to grow, to spread
- Standard Greek verb for 'grow' or 'cause to grow,' matching the 'grow' sense of רְבָה. Widely used in LXX to translate Hebrew roots related to growth and increase.
- μεγαλύνω megalýnō · G3170 · to make big, to make large, to enlarge
- Greek verb meaning 'to make great' or 'magnify,' corresponding to the 'make a great man' sense of רְבָה. Common LXX equivalent for Hebrew causative forms expressing greatness.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7236. rebah רְבָה verb grow great (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew I. רבה); — Pe`al…
רְבָה verb grow great (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew I. רבה); —
Pe`al Perfect3masculine singular ׳ר Dan 4:8 +; 3 feminine singular רְבָת Dan 4:19; Dan 4:2masculine singular רְבַיְתָ Kt ( > רְבַת Qr K§ 47, Beisp. 1)a)) Dan 4:19; — grow tall and large, of tree Dan 4:8; Dan 4:17; grow long, of hair Dan 4:30; figurative grow great, of king Dan 4:19, increase, of greatness Dan 4:19.
Pa`el make great: Perfect3masculine singular רַבִּי Dan 2:48 with ל accusative of person
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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