Original Language Studio
Ezra 3:12
“But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7227 · Hebrew
- Definition
- abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
- Derivation
- by contracted from H7231 (רָבַב);
- KJV renderings
- (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).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- רַבִּ֡ים — adjective, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 461 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 6:5Genesis 7:11Genesis 13:6Genesis 18:20Genesis 21:34
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read רַב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.