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ραββονι

Rabboni

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Rabboni’ fuller range ↓

G4462 Strong's Greek
rhabboní Transliteration
/hrab-bon-ee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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“Rabboni” is the headline sense of the Greek name ραββονι (rhabboní). The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. It clusters heavily in Mark, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Mark 10:51, it enters the text early. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Lord
Modern gloss
Rabboni
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4462 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
Mark 10:51
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Mark 10:51.
John 20:16
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in John 20:16.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 2 · 100%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 2 verses · 100%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 50%

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: Lord 1×, Rabboni 1×
  • American Standard Version: Hebrew 1×, Rabboni 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Rabboni 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rabbi 1×, Rabboni 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4462 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Lord” 1×
  • “Rabboni” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4462 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hebrew” 1×
  • “Rabboni” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4462 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Rabboni” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4462 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Rabbi” 1×
  • “Rabboni” 1×

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.

  1. master, chief, prince
  2. Rabboni is a title of honour Mary used to address Jesus

Word origin

Origin: of Aramaic origin

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 22:03,0

Of Chaldee origin; corresponding to G4461 : - Lord Rabboni.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G4462 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ῥαββουνί rhabbouní Aramaic transliteration Mark 10:51 1
Ῥαββουνί Rhabbouní Aramaic transliteration John 20:16 1

Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Rabboni). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

(id.) occurs only twice in the New Testament (Mark 10:51, A.V., "Lord," R.V., "Rabboni;" John 20:16). It was the most honourable of all the titles.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(John 30:18) [Rabbi]

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.

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