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# רַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7228

**archer** — used 3 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

archer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7228/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַב⁵: n.m. archer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7228/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. archer;—s. רַב Pr 26:10, pl. רַבִּים Je 50:29 (‖ דֹּרְכֵי קֶשֶׁת), sf. רַבָּיו Jb 16:13 (in fig.; Bö al. רֹבָיו; Vrss. Ew al. his missiles).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (18 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: archers (2); an archer (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.10/#tree)

רַ֥ב מְחֽוֹלֵֽל־כֹּ֑ל וְשֹׂכֵ֥ר כְּ֝סִ֗יל וְשֹׂכֵ֥ר עֹבְרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* an.archer \[who\].pierces everyone and \[one.who\].hires a.fool and \[one.who\].hires \[those.who\].pass.by

*JPS 1917:* A master performeth all things; but he that stoppeth a fool is as one that stoppeth a flood.

[Job 16:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.13/#tree)

יָ֘סֹ֤בּוּ עָלַ֨י ׀ רַבָּ֗יו יְפַלַּ֣ח כִּ֭לְיוֹתַי וְלֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ לָ֝אָ֗רֶץ מְרֵרָֽתִי׃

*Word for word:* they.surround (on) me archers his he.pierces kidneys my and not he.has.compassion he.pours.out to the ground gall my

*JPS 1917:* His archers compass me round about, He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7228.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7228/): 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).