Usually translated as
many, great, much, captain, more, enough, long, multitude, mighty, greatly, manifold, plenteous, suffice, exceedingly, abound, abundance, elder, full, master, shipmaster, multiply, oftentimes, populous, aboundant, aboundantly, increase, officer, often, prince, process, sufficelent
Occurrences
Rab occurs 458 times in 439 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (13), Exodus (9), Leviticus (2), Numbers (17), Deuteronomy (21), Joshua (13), Judges (5), 1 Samuel (5), 2 Samuel (8), 1 Kings (12), 2 Kings (10), 1 Chronicles (10), 2 Chronicles (28), Ezra (3), Nehemiah (11), Esther (7), Job (15), Psalms (57), Proverbs (20), Ecclesiastes (7), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (25), Jeremiah (38), Lamentations (3), Ezekiel (44), Daniel (23), Hosea (3), Joel (4), Amos (6), Jonah (3), Micah (6), Nahum (1), Habakkuk (3), Zechariah (4), Malachi (2)
- Genesis 6:5 — And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great (רַבָּ֛ה) in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great (רַבָּ֔ה) deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 13:6 — And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great (רָ֔ב), so that they could not dwell together.
- Genesis 21:34 — And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many (רַבִּֽים) days.
- Genesis 24:25 — She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough (רַ֣ב), and room to lodge in.
- Genesis 25:23 — And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder (וְרַ֖ב) shall serve the younger.
- Genesis 26:14 — For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store (רַבָּ֑ה) of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
- Genesis 30:43 — And the man increased exceedingly, and had much (רַבּ֔וֹת) cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
- Genesis 33:9 — And Esau said, I have enough (רָ֑ב), my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
- Genesis 36:7 — For their riches were more than (רָ֖ב) that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
- Genesis 37:34 — And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many (רַבִּֽים) days.
- Genesis 45:28 — And Israel said, It is enough (רַ֛ב); Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
- Genesis 50:20 — But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive (רָֽב).
- Exodus 1:9 — And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more (רַ֥ב) and mightier than we:
- Exodus 2:23 — And it came to pass in process of time (הָֽרַבִּ֜ים), that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
- Exodus 5:5 — And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many (רַבִּ֥ים), and ye make them rest from their burdens.
- Exodus 9:28 — Intreat the LORD (for it is enough (וְרַ֕ב)) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
- Exodus 12:38 — And a mixed multitude (רַ֖ב) went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
- Exodus 19:21 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many (רָֽב) of them perish.
- Exodus 23:2 — Thou shalt not follow a multitude (רַבִּ֖ים) to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
- Exodus 23:2 — Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many (רַבִּ֖ים) to wrest judgment:
- Exodus 23:29 — I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
- Exodus 34:6 — And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant (וְרַב) in goodness and truth,
- Leviticus 15:25 — And if a woman have an issue of her blood many (רַבִּ֗ים) days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 25:51 — If there be yet many (רַבּ֖וֹת) years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Numbers 9:19 — And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many (רַבִּ֑ים) days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
- Numbers 11:33 — And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great (רַבָּ֥ה) plague.
- Numbers 13:18 — And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many (רָֽב);
- Numbers 14:18 — The LORD is longsuffering, and of great (וְרַב) mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
- Numbers 16:3 — And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much (רַב) upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
- Numbers 16:7 — And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much (רַב) upon you, ye sons of Levi.
- Numbers 20:11 — And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly (רַבִּ֔ים), and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
- Numbers 20:15 — How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long (רַבִּ֑ים) time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
- Numbers 21:6 — And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much (רָ֖ב) people of Israel died.
- Numbers 22:3 — And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many (רַב): and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 22:15 — And Balak sent yet again princes, more (רַבִּ֥ים), and more honourable than they.
- Numbers 24:7 — He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many (רַבִּ֑ים) waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
- Numbers 26:54 — To many (לָרַ֗ב) thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
- Numbers 26:56 — According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many (רַ֖ב) and few.
- Numbers 32:1 — Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude (רַ֗ב) of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
- Numbers 33:54 — And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more (לָרַ֞ב) ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
- Numbers 35:8 — And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many (הָרַב֙) ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
- Deuteronomy 1:6 — The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough (רַב) in this mount:
- Deuteronomy 1:46 — So ye abode in Kadesh many (רַבִּ֑ים) days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
- Deuteronomy 2:1 — Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many (רַבִּֽים) days.
- Deuteronomy 2:3 — Ye have compassed this mountain long enough (רַב): turn you northward.
- Deuteronomy 2:10 — The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many (וְרַ֛ב), and tall, as the Anakims;
- Deuteronomy 2:21 — A people great, and many (וְרַ֛ב), and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
- Deuteronomy 3:19 — But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much (רַ֖ב) cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
- Deuteronomy 3:26 — But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice (רַב) thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.