ῥαββί
rabbi
‘rabbi’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Hebrew transliteration
- A Hebrew word carried over into Greek letters (e.g. ἀμήν, ἀλληλουϊά).
Every verse where G4461 appears in the Book of Matthew — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
- Matthew 23:7 ῥαββεί hebr the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men.
- Matthew 23:8 ῥαββεί hebr But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
- Matthew 26:25 ῥαββεί hebr Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it."
- Matthew 26:49 ῥαββεί hebr Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed him.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ραββι — transliterated rhabbí — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “rabbi.” Its uses cluster heavily in John (53% of all occurrences). Spanning 15 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 23:7, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 15-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4461 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Gospels 15 verses · 100%
- Johannine 8 verses · 53%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Master 9×, Rabbi 8×
- American Standard Version: Rabbi 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rabbi 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rabbi 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4461 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4461 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4461 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4461 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- my great one, my honourable sir
- Rabbi, a title used by the Jews to address their teachers (and also honour them when not addressing them)
Word origin
Derived from רב (rab) (H7227) — many.
Of hebrew origin [ H7227 ] with pronominal suffix; my master that is Rabbi as an official title of honor : - Master Rabbi.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4461, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
