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# רַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7232

**chief** — used 2 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

chief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7232/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָבַב³: vb. shoot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7232/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shoot;— Pf. 3 pl. וָרֹ֑בּוּ (Ges§ 67 m) Gn 49:23 abs. (בַּעֲלֵי חִצִּים in ‖ l.; Sam. וַיְרִיבֻהוּ, so perhaps 𝔊 ἐλοιδόρουν).—רָ֜ב ψ 18:15 (חִצָּיו in ‖ l.), v. i. רַב 1 g.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (21 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he shot (1); they shot (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.23/#tree)

וַֽיְמָרֲרֻ֖הוּ וָרֹ֑בּוּ וַֽיִּשְׂטְמֻ֖הוּ בַּעֲלֵ֥י חִצִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they showed.bitterness.to.him and they.shot and they were.hostile.towards.him masters of.arrows

*JPS 1917:* The archers have dealt bitterly with him, and shot at him, and hated him;

[Psalms 18:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.15/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח חִ֭צָּיו וַיְפִיצֵ֑ם וּבְרָקִ֥ים רָ֝ב וַיְהֻמֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent.out arrows his and he scattered.them and lightning.flashes he.shot and he confused.them

*JPS 1917:* And He sent out His arrows, and scattered them; and He shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7232.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7232/): 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).