TBESH · H7227A
רַב · rav · many
adj 1) much, many, great 1a) much 1b) many 1c) abounding in 1d) more numerous than 1e) abundant, enough 1f) great 1g) strong 1h) greater than adv 1i) much, exceedingly
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רַב (rav) means “many” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: rab Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
רַב · rav · many
adj 1) much, many, great 1a) much 1b) many 1c) abounding in 1d) more numerous than 1e) abundant, enough 1f) great 1g) strong 1h) greater than adv 1i) much, exceedingly
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רַב · rav · chief
captain, chief Aramaic equivalent: rav.re.van (רַבְרְבָן "noble" H7261)
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רַב · rav · (Sidon) the Great
Combined with tsi.don (צִידוֹן "Sidon" H6721H) § captain, chief
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by contracted from H7231 (רָבַב); abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV glosses: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
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| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| many | 75 |
| and many | 21 |
| of many | 20 |
| captain | 14 |
| great | 10 |
| for many | 9 |
| the captain | 8 |
| much | 6 |
| the great | 6 |
| a great | 5 |
| abounding | 5 |
| enough | 5 |
| is great | 5 |
| a long | 4 |
| abundant | 4 |
| are many | 4 |
| for a long | 4 |
| larger | 4 |
| the many | 4 |
| and a great | 3 |
| in the great | 3 |
| large | 3 |
| of the great | 3 |
| plenty | 3 |
| to many | 3 |
| with great | 3 |
| a great deal of | 2 |
| a man of many | 2 |
| after a long | 2 |
| and mighty | 2 |
| and numerous | 2 |
| as numerous | 2 |
| because of the abundant | 2 |
| but many | 2 |
| has great | 2 |
| have many | 2 |
| i have had enough | 2 |
| long | 2 |
| long enough | 2 |
| many a time | 2 |
| mighty | 2 |
| more | 2 |
| of great | 2 |
| out of deep | 2 |
| over many | 2 |
| rich | 2 |
| so many | 2 |
| than great | 2 |
| the crowd | 2 |
| there was a large amount | 2 |
| too many | 2 |
| vast | 2 |
| weighs heavily | 2 |
| with many | 2 |
| a great number of | 1 |
| a huge | 1 |
| a large | 1 |
| a larger tribe | 1 |
| a long time | 1 |
| a vast | 1 |
| abounds | 1 |
| abundance | 1 |
| abundantly | 1 |
| against the mighty | 1 |
| along with a great number | 1 |
| among many | 1 |
| amount | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and a large | 1 |
| and abounding | 1 |
| and defender | 1 |
| and for a full | 1 |
| and for many | 1 |
| and great | 1 |
| and greater | 1 |
| and in your great | 1 |
| and kept vast | 1 |
| and many countries | 1 |
| and many shechemites | 1 |
| and more | 1 |
| and rich | 1 |
| and the great | 1 |
| and the older | 1 |
| and those who lead many | 1 |
| and vast | 1 |
| and wide | 1 |
| are greater | 1 |
| are indeed a vast | 1 |
| are more | 1 |
| are now numerous | 1 |
| are numerous | 1 |
| are so numerous | 1 |
| as abundant | 1 |
| as long as | 1 |
| but in your great | 1 |
| but many are those | 1 |
| but she who has many | 1 |
| but the captain | 1 |
| chief officers | 1 |
| comes much | 1 |
| far as greater | 1 |
| flowed freely | 1 |
| for a large tribe | 1 |
| for a long period | 1 |
| for a long time | 1 |
| for an extended | 1 |
| from many | 1 |
| from the deep | 1 |
| from the great | 1 |
| full | 1 |
| fully | 1 |
| greater | 1 |
| has caused many | 1 |
| has many | 1 |
| have become too numerous | 1 |
| have so many | 1 |
| her many | 1 |
| his vast | 1 |
| how many | 1 |
| i greatly | 1 |
| i will cause many | 1 |
| in your great | 1 |
| increase | 1 |
| increasing | 1 |
| is also a great | 1 |
| is for many | 1 |
| is greatly | 1 |
| is too much | 1 |
| it concerns the distant | 1 |
| its abundant | 1 |
| its thick | 1 |
| large number of | 1 |
| lest many | 1 |
| let a large | 1 |
| let the distant | 1 |
| like great | 1 |
| many bones | 1 |
| many of them | 1 |
| many others | 1 |
| many things | 1 |
| more numerous | 1 |
| more than most | 1 |
| multitude | 1 |
| my great | 1 |
| number of | 1 |
| of a great | 1 |
| of the mighty | 1 |
| of your abundant | 1 |
| official | 1 |
| on the great | 1 |
| on the mighty | 1 |
| once so full | 1 |
| onto the high | 1 |
| or many | 1 |
| severely | 1 |
| she has brought many | 1 |
| she who was great | 1 |
| since more | 1 |
| so much | 1 |
| so that a great amount of | 1 |
| so that the mighty | 1 |
| still many | 1 |
| than much | 1 |
| that is enough | 1 |
| the abundant | 1 |
| the captains | 1 |
| the chief | 1 |
| the larger | 1 |
| the old | 1 |
| their abundance | 1 |
| then many | 1 |
| then the captain | 1 |
| there are many | 1 |
| there is a greater one | 1 |
| there is great | 1 |
| there was a wide | 1 |
| there was so much | 1 |
| there were many | 1 |
| through the mighty | 1 |
| to a larger clan | 1 |
| to great | 1 |
| too great | 1 |
| too large | 1 |
| too long | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| was great | 1 |
| were numerous | 1 |
| what a great | 1 |
| when great | 1 |
| whether by many | 1 |
| who have taken too much | 1 |
| will abound | 1 |
| will be many | 1 |
| will be too much | 1 |
| will have abundant | 1 |
| will receive many | 1 |
| will suffer from a severe | 1 |
| with a mighty | 1 |
| with a severe | 1 |
| with abundance | 1 |
| with immense | 1 |
| with the abundant | 1 |
| with the great | 1 |
| with your great | 1 |
| yet has great | 1 |
| yet no matter how long | 1 |
| you have many | 1 |
| you have taken too much | 1 |
| your great | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| many | 80 |
| great | 28 |
| and many | 21 |
| much | 18 |
| a great | 16 |
| of many | 16 |
| the captain | 15 |
| more | 7 |
| for many | 6 |
| and of great | 5 |
| of great | 5 |
| the great | 5 |
| a long | 4 |
| enough | 4 |
| of the great | 4 |
| with many | 4 |
| and much | 3 |
| and plenteous | 3 |
| and the captain | 3 |
| and the great | 3 |
| captain | 3 |
| greater | 3 |
| in the great | 3 |
| it is enough | 3 |
| over many | 3 |
| unto many | 3 |
| abundantly | 2 |
| and great | 2 |
| but many | 2 |
| by great | 2 |
| from the great | 2 |
| in great | 2 |
| is great | 2 |
| let it suffice | 2 |
| long enough | 2 |
| many a time | 2 |
| me many | 2 |
| me out of many | 2 |
| multitude | 2 |
| or many | 2 |
| than great | 2 |
| too much | 2 |
| upon many | 2 |
| were more | 2 |
| who had done many | 2 |
| with much | 2 |
| yea many | 2 |
| yet many | 2 |
| a multitude | 1 |
| aboundeth in | 1 |
| above many | 1 |
| abundant | 1 |
| after many | 1 |
| against me for there were many | 1 |
| all great | 1 |
| all the mighty | 1 |
| also a great | 1 |
| among many | 1 |
| and a great | 1 |
| and a great one | 1 |
| and a mighty | 1 |
| and abundant | 1 |
| and according to thy manifold | 1 |
| and by great | 1 |
| and great store | 1 |
| and greater | 1 |
| and had much | 1 |
| and he had much | 1 |
| and her great | 1 |
| and in thy great | 1 |
| and increased | 1 |
| and it came to pass a long | 1 |
| and it came to pass in process | 1 |
| and it shall come to pass when many | 1 |
| and likewise many | 1 |
| and mighty | 1 |
| and populous | 1 |
| and she that hath many | 1 |
| and the elder | 1 |
| and the princes | 1 |
| and then many | 1 |
| and there were more | 1 |
| and they that turn many | 1 |
| and upon the many | 1 |
| and when many | 1 |
| and will cause many | 1 |
| and with many | 1 |
| and with much | 1 |
| as many | 1 |
| be many | 1 |
| be sufficient | 1 |
| because of the multitude | 1 |
| beside the great | 1 |
| besides unto them many | 1 |
| between many | 1 |
| both against many | 1 |
| but for thy great | 1 |
| but great | 1 |
| but the captain | 1 |
| by many | 1 |
| by reason of many | 1 |
| by these things yet among many | 1 |
| common | 1 |
| down many | 1 |
| for he had many | 1 |
| for he had much | 1 |
| for it is great | 1 |
| for me and many | 1 |
| for me many | 1 |
| for more | 1 |
| for oftentimes | 1 |
| for there was exceeding much | 1 |
| for thyself long | 1 |
| full | 1 |
| great men | 1 |
| had not many | 1 |
| hath long | 1 |
| him above these with many | 1 |
| him and many | 1 |
| him by the great | 1 |
| him in great | 1 |
| how great | 1 |
| i shall not be greatly | 1 |
| in abundance | 1 |
| in many | 1 |
| in multitude | 1 |
| increased | 1 |
| is exceedingly | 1 |
| is greatly | 1 |
| it thou greatly | 1 |
| it was so much | 1 |
| let the multitude | 1 |
| like great | 1 |
| long | 1 |
| many such things | 1 |
| many things | 1 |
| me great | 1 |
| me out of great | 1 |
| mighty | 1 |
| multiply | 1 |
| nevertheless for thy great | 1 |
| not to many | 1 |
| now also many | 1 |
| now for a long | 1 |
| of a great | 1 |
| of the mighty | 1 |
| of thee in the great | 1 |
| of this great | 1 |
| of thy great | 1 |
| on us and the great | 1 |
| out of many | 1 |
| over this great | 1 |
| princes | 1 |
| shall abound | 1 |
| shall have many | 1 |
| so the captain | 1 |
| so the shipmaster | 1 |
| that had a long | 1 |
| that ye have much | 1 |
| the master | 1 |
| the multitude | 1 |
| thee into great | 1 |
| them great | 1 |
| them unto great | 1 |
| them with a great | 1 |
| there many | 1 |
| there shall many | 1 |
| thereof and the great | 1 |
| these many | 1 |
| this great | 1 |
| thou and many | 1 |
| to all the officers | 1 |
| to many | 1 |
| to the more | 1 |
| too great | 1 |
| too many | 1 |
| unto great | 1 |
| unto me let it suffice | 1 |
| unto them it is too much | 1 |
| upon thee and great | 1 |
| upon us for we are exceedingly | 1 |
| was by great | 1 |
| was great | 1 |
| was too much | 1 |
| with all that great | 1 |
| with great | 1 |
| with the captain | 1 |
| with the great | 1 |
| with them much | 1 |
| ye have caused many | 1 |
| yea i will make many | 1 |
| yea than much | 1 |
| yet thou in thy manifold | 1 |
| your manifold | 1 |
Page 7 of 9. 436 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordBut for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
Read word by wordFor I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
Read word by wordAnd many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
Read word by wordFor many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
Read word by wordAll nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
Read word by wordThe prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
Read word by word“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
Read word by wordthe One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Read word by wordNor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
Read word by wordThen Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Read word by wordSo Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
Read word by wordThen Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
Read word by wordBut Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
Read word by wordNow Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, saying,
Read word by wordSo Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the captains of the king of Babylon
Read word by wordThis is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
Read word by wordThe captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,
Read word by wordBut before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.
Read word by wordIn the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.
Read word by wordThen Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
Read word by wordthey took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.
Read word by wordthe men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
Read word by wordBehold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.
Read word by wordYou who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
Read word by wordFor the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
Read word by wordOn the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
Read word by wordAnd the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
Read word by wordThen Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
Read word by wordBut Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Read word by wordThe captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
Read word by wordThe captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
Read word by wordNebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Read word by wordin Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
Read word by wordHow lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
Read word by wordLet all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.
Read word by wordThey are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Read word by wordWhen the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the roar of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
Read word by wordnot to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
Read word by word“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’
Read word by wordThen they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
Read word by wordHe took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.
Read word by wordBut there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.
Read word by wordIt had been planted in good soil by abundant waters in order to yield branches and bear fruit and become a splendid vine.’
Read word by wordSo you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.
Read word by wordBut this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’
Read word by wordPharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.
Read word by wordYour mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
Read word by wordThose near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.
Read word by wordIt has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.
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