רֹב
rôb · robe
abundance (in any respect)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7231 (רָבַב);
abundance (in any respect)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: abundance(-antly), all, [idiom] common (sort), excellent, great(-ly, -ness, number), huge, be increased, long, many, more in number, most, much, multitude, plenty(-ifully), [idiom] very (age).
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 רֹב 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
149 occurrences · 149 OT · 0 NT · 51 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in abundance18 · 20%
- for multitude12 · 13%
- in the multitude9 · 10%
- for the multitude6 · 7%
- by the multitude5 · 5%
- abundance4 · 4%
- in multitude3 · 3%
- much3 · 3%
- by reason of the multitude3 · 3%
- according to the multitude3 · 3%
- abundantly3 · 3%
- with the multitude3 · 3%
- great2 · 2%
- for abundance2 · 2%
- and in the greatness2 · 2%
- in the greatness2 · 2%
- but in the multitude2 · 2%
- and the multitude2 · 2%
- long1 · 1%
- for the abundance1 · 1%
- you, because ye were more1 · 1%
- to the multitude1 · 1%
- into a multitude1 · 1%
- unto a multitude1 · 1%
- and plenty1 · 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.