Strong’s H7227 · Hebrew
רַב
rab
rab
Definition
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Etymology
by contracted from H7231 (רָבַב);
Word family
How the KJV renders it
- (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)
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.