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# רְבוּ

Biblical Aramaic

**greatness** — used 5 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

greatness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְבוּ: n.f. greatness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5d1_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. greatness (𝔗 Syriac);—abs. ר׳ Dn 4:33, emph. רְבוּתָא 5:18 +, sf. -תָךְ 4:19;—greatness of king Dn 4:19, 33; 5:18, 19; of kingdom 7:27.

### Jastrow 1903

רְבוּ

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. רְבוּתָא

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (18 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (3); greatness (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.18/#tree)

אַ֖נְתְּ מַלְכָּ֑א אֱלָהָא֙ עִלָּאָ֔ה מַלְכוּתָ֤א וּרְבוּתָא֙ וִיקָרָ֣א וְהַדְרָ֔ה יְהַ֖ב לִנְבֻכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר אֲבוּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* you O king (the) God (the).Most High the kingdom and the greatness and the honor and the majesty he.gave to Nebuchadnezzar father your

*JPS 1917:* O thou king, God Most High gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;

[Daniel 4:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.19/#tree)

אַנְתְּ־ה֣וּא מַלְכָּ֔א דִּ֥י רְבַ֖ית וּתְקֵ֑פְתְּ וּרְבוּתָ֤ךְ רְבָת֙ וּמְטָ֣ת לִשְׁמַיָּ֔א וְשָׁלְטָנָ֖ךְ לְס֥וֹף אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].you it O king who you.have.grown.great and you.have.grown.strong and greatness your it.has.grown.great and it.has.reached to the heavens and dominion your \[is\].to the.end the earth

*JPS 1917:* it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of 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_5d5_5bc.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_5d5_5bc/): 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).