H7231: רָבַב
râbab · pronounced raw-bab' · “to multiply”
Definition
properly, to cast together , i.e. increase, especially in number; to multiply by the myriad
KJV translates it as: increase, be many(-ifold), be more, multiply, ten thousands.
Word origin: a primitive root; (compare H7241 (רָבִיב)); also as denominative from H7233 (רְבָבָה);
Extended definition
1a)(Qal)
1a1) to be or become many
1a2) to be or become great
1a3) to be long (of journey)
2) (Pual) ten thousands
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7231 is translated
- they are many ×8
- they will be many ×2
- become numerous ×1
- it is great ×1
- it will become many ×1
- you ×1
- they have been many ×1
- they abound ×1
- they have become many ×1
- producing ten thousands ×1
- they increase ×1
- it will become great ×1
Bible verses with H7231 (râbab)
Râbab appears in 21 verses.
- Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
- Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 7:7
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
- 1 Samuel 25:10
And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
- Job 35:6
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
- Psalms 3:1
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
- Psalms 4:7
Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
- Psalms 25:19
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
- Psalms 38:19
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
- Psalms 69:4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
- Psalms 104:24
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
- Psalms 144:13
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
- Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
- Isaiah 6:12
And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
- Isaiah 22:9
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
- Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
- Isaiah 66:16
For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
- Jeremiah 5:6
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
- Jeremiah 14:7
O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
- Jeremiah 46:23
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.