רִבּוֹ
ten thousand
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
1 distinct verse where H7239 appears in the Construct state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Hosea 1 verse
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.
At its core, רבו (ribbôw) means “ten thousand.” First canonically at 1 Chronicles 29:7, it enters the text early. With 10 verses in 7 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Nehemiah (30% of all occurrences). From the same root come רבב, רב and רב. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7239 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 3 verses 30%
- Ezra 2 verses 20%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 80%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 20%
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: Thousand 3×
- American Standard Version: Thousand 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tens of thousands 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7239 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7239 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7239 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7239 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- ten thousand, myriad
Word origin
n.f. Ezr 2:64 ten thousand, myriad (later (Aramaizing) synonym of foregoing; perhaps for Aramaic רִבּוּ(ת), Köii. 1, 221 f., but Palm. רבו Lzb 367);—abs. רִבּוֹ 1 Ch 29:7(×2); Jon 4:11 (? cstr.), + cstr. Ho 8:12 Kt (v. infr.); רִבּוֹא Ezr 2:64 = Ne 7:66; Ne 7:71 (van d. H. v 72); du. רִבֹּתַיִם ψ 68:18; pl. רִבּוֹת Ne 7:70 (van d. H. v 71), רִבֹּאוֹת Ezr 2:69; Dn 11:12;—ten thousand; of pers., 4 × 10,000 + 2000 + 3 × 100 + 60 Ezr 2:64 = Ne 7:66; 12 × 10,000 + n. Jon 4:11; indef. Dn 11:12 he shall cast down myriads; read רִבּוֹת also v 41 (for MT רַבּוֹת) Kmp Bev Behrm Marti Prince; of things, especially units of value, n. + 10,000 1 Ch 29:7, n. + 6 × 10,000 + 1000 Ezr 2:69 ‖ n. + 2 × 10,000 Ne 7:70, 71 (v. supr.); 10,000 + 8 × 1000 + n. 1 Ch 29:7; indef. רֶכֶב אֱלֹהִים רִבֹּתַיִם ψ 68:18 (‖ אלפים);—רִבּוֹ תוֹרָתִי Ho 8:12 (Kt; 10,000 [precepts] of my instruction) would be only early instance, v. רֹב.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רבב (râbab) (H7231) — to become many.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רְבוּ
- , v. רְבוּתָא
רְבוּתָא
- (רְבֵי I)
- 1. greatness, dignity, office; anointment. Targ. II Esth. VI, 10. Targ. Is. IX, 6. Targ. Deut. XXXII, 3 (Y. II רַבּוּ). Targ. Zech. IX, 6 (h. text גאון). Targ. Num. XVIII, 8 (h. text מָשְׁחָה). Targ. Ps. CXLV, 3 (some ed. רַבּוּ׳). Ib. CL, 2, v. רַבָּנוּתָא; a. fr.—Targ. Esth. II, 9, v. סַמְתּוֹרָא.—Gitt. 68ᵇ מאי רְבוּתַיְיכוּ מינן wherein are you our superiors?; אחוי לך רְבוּתָאִי I shall show thee my superiority. Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ bot. רבו היא it was an honor (to be brought into the king’s palace); a. e.
- 2. a great thing, something remarkable. Targ. Esth. II, 21.—Snh. 106ᵇ, v. בַּעְיָא. Ḥag. 24ᵃ היינו רְבוּתֵיה דנגובה (Rashi רבותא) this is the remarkable thing about ‘the dry hand’ (that is the reason for the insertion of the word נגובה, to show that even the touch of a dry hand makes unclean); מאי ר׳ דנגובה what it there remarkable in ‘the dry hand’? B. Bath. 36ᵇ; Yeb. 45ᵃ ר׳ למחשב גברי וכ׳ is it a great thing to quote authorities? (I can do the same:) here are Rab &c.; a. e.—V. רְבִיתָא II, III, a. רֵיבוּתָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H7239 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רִבּ֔וֹא | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 2:64 | 3 |
| רִבּ֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Nehemiah 7:71 | 1 |
| רִבּ֛וֹ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 29:7 | 1 |
| רִבּ֜וֹ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute | Jonah 4:11 | 1 |
| רִבֹּ֣אות | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 2:69 | 1 |
| רִבֹּא֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 11:12 | 1 |
| רִבֹּתַ֣יִם | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Dual, Absolute | Psalms 68:17 | 1 |
| רִבּוֹ֒ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 29:7 | 1 |
| רבו | Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct | Hosea 8:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7239, 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
- רב rab H7227 many
- רב rôb H7230 multitude
- רבב râbab H7232 to shoot
- רבבה rᵉbâbâh H7233 myriad
- רביב râbîyb H7241 heavy showers
Derived from this word
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 10 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
