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# רְבָבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7233

**multitude** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

multitude [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7233/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְבָבָה: multitude, myriad, ten thousand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7233/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. f. multitude, myriad, ten thousand (Köii. 1, 221);—abs. ר׳ Gn 24:60 +; sf. רִבְבָתוֹ Kt 1 S 18:7 + 2 times (Qr רִבְבֹתָיו); pl. abs. רְבָבוֹת 1 S 18:8; cstr. רִֽבְבוֹת Mi 6:7 +, רִֽבֲבוֹת Dt 33:17; sf. v. supr. Qr;—myriad, 10,000: of great number of pers., indef. Gn 24:60 (J; אַלְפֵי רְבָבָה thousands of myriads), Dt 33:2 (poem; מֵרִבְבוֹת קֹדֶשׁ, but v. קֹדֶשׁ, ad fin.), ψ 3:7 Ct 5:10; רִֽבְבוֹת אַלְפֵי יִשׂ׳ Nu 10:36, cf. Dt 33:17 (poem);—רְבָבָה Ez 16:7 read רְבִי 𝔊 Co Berthol Krae;—more precisely: (100, 1000), 10,000, Ju 20:10; opp. 2, Dt 32:30 (poem), opp. 100, Lv 26:8 (H), opp. 1000, 1 S 18:7, 8; 21:12; 29:5 ψ 91:7; so of things, Mi 6:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ten thousand (4); ten (3); ten thousands (3).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.10/#tree)

דּוֹדִ֥י צַח֙ וְאָד֔וֹם דָּג֖וּל מֵרְבָבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* lover my \[is\].dazzling and ruddy \[he.is\].conspicuous more than.ten.thousand

*JPS 1917:* 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand.

[Psalms 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.3.7/#tree)

לֹֽא־אִ֭ירָא מֵרִבְב֥וֹת עָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר סָ֝בִ֗יב שָׁ֣תוּ עָלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* not I.will.be.afraid from ten.thousands of.people who all.around they.have.taken.a.stand on me

*JPS 1917:* I am not afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7233.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7233/): 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).