רִבּוֹ
ribbôw · H7239 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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ten thousand
State in which a countable entity is ten thousand in number; associated with excessively high numbers by which the exact number is relatively unimportant
Examples1 Chronicles 29:7 and for the service of the house of God they gave five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
Psalm 68:17 The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.
Daniel 11:12 “When the multitude is carried away, his heart will be haughty, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָפַלto fall 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֶכֶבchariot, chariots 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 (myriás, G3461) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew רִבּוֹ (ribbôw, H7239) for large numerical quantities, both denoting 'ten thousand' as their primary sense with extension to indefinitely large numbers.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The word denotes a large round number (ten thousand or more), directly illustrated by the ten thousand darics and talents given for the temple (1 Chronicles 29:7) and the sums given by the returning exiles (Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:70).
- Frequency002001003009
- This domain is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which all concern large sums 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 H7239. ribbo רִבּוֺא רִבּוֺ, noun feminineEzr 2:64 ten thousand, myriad (later…
רִבּוֺא רִבּוֺ, noun feminineEzr 2:64 ten thousand, myriad (later (Aramaizing) synonym of foregoing; perhaps for Aramaic רִבּוּ(תׅ, Köii. 1, 221 f., but Palmyrene רבו Lzb367); — absolute רִבּוֺ 1Ch 29:7 (twice in verse); Jon 4:11 (? construct), + construct Hos 8:12 Kt (see below); רִבּוֺא Ezr 2:64 = Neh 7:66, Neh 7:71 (van d. H. Neh 7:72), du רִבֹּתַיִם Psa 68:18; plural רִבּוֺת Neh 7:70 (van d. H. Neh 7:17), רִבֹּאוֺת Ezr 2:69; Dan 11:12; — ten thousand; of person, 4*10, 000+200+3*100+60 Ezr 2:64 = Neh 7:66; Nehemiah 12*10, 000+n. Jon 4:11; indefinite Dan 11:12 he shall cast down myriads; read רִבּוֺת also Dan 11:41 (for רַבּוֺת ᵑ0) Kmp Bev Behrm Marti Prince; of things, especially units of value, noun + 10, 00 1Ch 29:7, noun + 6*10, 000 1000 Ezr 2:69 || noun + 2*10000 Neh 7:70-71, (see above); 10, 000 8000+? 1Ch 29:7; indefinite רִבֹּתַיִם אֱלֹתִים רֶכֶב Psa 68:18 (|| אלפים); — תוֺרָתִי רִבּוֺ Hos 8:12 (Kt 10, 00[precepts] of my instruction would be only early instance, see רֹב.
[רָבַב]
Pu`al denominative from preceding: — Participle feminine plural מְרֻבָּבוֺת Psa 144:13 multiplied ten thousand-fold.
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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