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# רַבָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7237

**Rabbah** — used 15 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

Rabbah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7237/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַבָּה: n.pr.loc. Rabba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7237/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Rabba (proposes great or populous, sc. city);— capital of Ammonites: explicitly, רַבַּת בְּנֵי עַמּוֹן 2 S 12:26, 27; 17:27; Dt 3:11; Je 49:2; Ez 21:25; רַבָּה alone 2 S 11:1 ‖ 1 Ch 20:1(×2), Am 1:14; Je 49:3; Ez 25:5; Jos 13:25 (P); c. ה loc. רַבָּ֑תָה 2 S 12:29; in Gk. period Philadelphia, LagOnom. 215, 94; 219, 82 (but Ραββαταμανα Polyb v. 71:4), mod. ʿAmmân, 13½ m. NE. from Heshbon, 28½ m. E. of Jordan; cf. BuhlGeogr. 260;—𝔊 Ραββαθ, Ραββα. הָרַבָּה, city in Judah Jos 15:60 (P), site unknown;—𝔊 Σωθηβα, A 𝔊L Αρεββα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Rabbah (11); of Rabbah (3); to (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 12:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.26/#tree)

וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם יוֹאָ֔ב בְּרַבַּ֖ת בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד אֶת־עִ֥יר הַמְּלוּכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.fought Joab against Rabbah of.the.people of.Ammon and he.captured (et) the.city of.(the) royalty

*JPS 1917:* Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

[Joshua 15:60](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.60/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.60/#tree)

קִרְיַת־בַּ֗עַלקִרְיַת־בַּ֗עַל הִ֛יא קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִ֖ים קִרְיַ֥ת יְעָרִ֖ים וְהָֽרַבָּ֑ה עָרִ֥ים שְׁתַּ֖יִם וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* Kiriath Baal that \[is\].Kiriath Jearim and (the) Rabbah cities two and villages their

*JPS 1917:* Kiriath-baal — the same is Kiriath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7237.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7237/): 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).