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# רְבָה

Biblical Aramaic

**grow great** — used 6 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

grow great [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְבָה: vb. grow great [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grow great (𝔗 Syriac; v. BH I. רבה);— Pf. 3 ms. ר׳ Dn 4:8 +; 3 fs. רְבָת v 19; 2 ms. רְבַיְתָ Kt (\> רְבַת Qr K§ 47, Beisp. 1) a)) v 19;—grow tall and large, of tree Dn 4:8, 17; grow long, of hair v 30; fig. grow great, of king v 19, increase, of greatness v 19. make great: Pf. 3 ms. רַבִּי 2:48 c. ל acc. pers.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it grew great (2); he made great (1); it grew long (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.8/#tree)

רְבָ֥ה אִֽילָנָ֖א וּתְקִ֑ף וְרוּמֵהּ֙ יִמְטֵ֣א לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ לְס֥וֹף כָּל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* it.grew.great the tree and it.grew.strong and height its it.reached to the heavens and the.sight of.it \[was\].to the.end of.all the land

*JPS 1917:* The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.

[Daniel 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.17/#tree)

אִֽילָנָא֙ דִּ֣י חֲזַ֔יְתָ דִּ֥י רְבָ֖ה וּתְקִ֑ף וְרוּמֵהּ֙ יִמְטֵ֣א לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וַחֲזוֹתֵ֖הּ לְכָל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* the tree which you.saw which it.grew.great and it.grew.strong and height its it.reached to the heavens and the.sight of.it \[was\].to all the land

*JPS 1917:* The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d1_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).