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.