רַב
rab · rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Lexicon
Derivation: by contracted from H7231 (רָבַב);
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the house, what is within
The head, the highest of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רַב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
454 occurrences · 454 OT · 0 NT · 132 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- many58 · 27%
- and many22 · 10%
- of many16 · 8%
- the captain14 · 7%
- much13 · 6%
- great13 · 6%
- is great7 · 3%
- a great7 · 3%
- and of great5 · 2%
- with many4 · 2%
- a long4 · 2%
- the great4 · 2%
- and much4 · 2%
- of great4 · 2%
- it is enough4 · 2%
- for many4 · 2%
- of the great4 · 2%
- in the great3 · 1%
- are many3 · 1%
- and the captain3 · 1%
- captain3 · 1%
- over many3 · 1%
- unto many3 · 1%
- greater3 · 1%
- was great3 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.