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# רִבֹּוא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7239

**ten thousand** — used 10 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

ten thousand [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7239/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִבּוֹ: n.f. ten thousand, myriad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7239/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Ezr 2:64 ten thousand, myriad (later (Aramaizing) synonym of foregoing; perhaps for Aramaic רִבּוּ(ת), Köii. 1, 221 f., but Palm. רבו Lzb 367);—abs. רִבּוֹ 1 Ch 29:7(×2); Jon 4:11 (? cstr.), + cstr. Ho 8:12 Kt (v. infr.); רִבּוֹא Ezr 2:64 = Ne 7:66; Ne 7:71 (van d. H. v 72); du. רִבֹּתַיִם ψ 68:18; pl. רִבּוֹת Ne 7:70 (van d. H. v 71), רִבֹּאוֹת Ezr 2:69; Dn 11:12;—ten thousand; of pers., 4 × 10,000 + 2000 + 3 × 100 + 60 Ezr 2:64 = Ne 7:66; 12 × 10,000 + n. Jon 4:11; indef. Dn 11:12 he shall cast down myriads; read רִבּוֹת also v 41 (for MT רַבּוֹת) Kmp Bev Behrm Marti Prince; of things, especially units of value, n. + 10,000 1 Ch 29:7, n. + 6 × 10,000 + 1000 Ezr 2:69 ‖ n. + 2 × 10,000 Ne 7:70, 71 (v. supr.); 10,000 + 8 × 1000 + n. 1 Ch 29:7; indef. רֶכֶב אֱלֹהִים רִבֹּתַיִם ψ 68:18 (‖ אלפים);—רִבּוֹ תוֹרָתִי Ho 8:12 (Kt; 10,000 \[precepts\] of my instruction) would be only early instance, v. רֹב.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ten thousand (6); ten thousands (2); \[is\] twice ten thousand (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:64](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.64/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.64/#tree)

כָּל־הַקָּהָ֖ל כְּאֶחָ֑ד אַרְבַּ֣ע רִבּ֔וֹא אַלְפַּ֖יִם שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת שִׁשִּֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* all the assembly as one four ten.thousand two.thousand three hundred(s) sixty

*JPS 1917:* The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

[Nehemiah 7:66](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.66/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.66/#tree)

כָּל־הַקָּהָ֖ל כְּאֶחָ֑ד אַרְבַּ֣ע רִבּ֔וֹא אַלְפַּ֖יִם שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* all the assembly as one four ten.thousand two.thousand three hundred(s) and sixty

*JPS 1917:* The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7239.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7239/): 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).