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# רְבִיבִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7241

**copious showers** — used 6 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

copious showers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7241/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְבִיבִים: n.m. pl. copious showers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7241/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 3:3 pl. copious showers, causing fertility;—ר׳ Dt 32:2 + 3 times, רְבִבִים Je 14:22, רְבִבִם 3:3;—copious showers, Je 3:3 (+ מַלְקוֹשׁ), יִתְּנוּ ר׳ 14:22 (‖ מַגְשִׁמִים), ר׳ ψ 65:11; sim., of penetrating, pervasive infl. of prophetic words Dt 32:2 (‖ שְׂעִירִם, also מָטָר, טַל), of Jacob Mi 5:6 (‖ טַל), of future king ψ 72:6 (‖ מָטָר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: showers (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/#tree)

יֵ֭רֵד כְּמָטָ֣ר עַל־גֵּ֑ז כִּ֝רְבִיבִ֗ים זַרְזִ֥יף אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.come.down like rain on mown.grass like showers dropping of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

[Psalms 65:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.11/#tree)

תְּלָמֶ֣יהָ רַ֭וֵּה נַחֵ֣ת גְּדוּדֶ֑יהָ בִּרְבִיבִ֥ים תְּ֝מֹגְגֶ֗נָּה צִמְחָ֥הּ תְּבָרֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* furrows its you.water.abundantly you.press.down ridges its with showers you soften.it growth its you.bless

*JPS 1917:* Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7241.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7241/): 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).