רְבִיבִים
heavy showers
‘heavy showers’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- 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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7241 appears in the Book of Micah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Micah
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.
“heavy showers” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun רביב (râbîyb). Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 32:2. With 6 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Psalms, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7241 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 2 verses 33%
- Jeremiah 2 verses 33%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 17%
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: Showers 4×
- American Standard Version: Showers 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Like showers 2×, Showers 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Showers 3×, Like showers 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7241 across 6 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7241 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7241 across 6 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7241 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses 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.
- copious showers, heavy showers
- as bringing fertility
- of prophetic influence (figuratively)
Word origin
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.
רָבִיב
- (רָבַב)
- 1. lining, thick cloth. Sifré Deut. 306 (ref. to רביבים, Deut. XXXII, 2) זה … שמארגת את הרקיע כר׳ (Pesik. Zuṭr. Haăz., ed. Bub. p. 110 שמרבבת) that is the south wind which overweaves (which lines) the sky as with a thick lining; Yalk. ib. 942.—2) pl. רְבִיבִים (b. h.; רָבַב, cmp. רְבִיעָה) [growth-advancing,] rains. Sifré l. c. (ref. to Deut. l. c.) מה ר׳ הללו יורדים וכ׳ as the rains come down on plants &c.; Yalk. l. c. B. Bath. 25ᵃ (ref. to Deut. l. c.) זו רוח … ר׳ וכ׳ that is the south wind which brings rains and makes the plants grow; ib.ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:2
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 6 distinct written forms H7241 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּ/רְבִיבִ֥ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 65:10 | 1 |
| וְ/כִ/רְבִיבִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 32:2 | 1 |
| כִּ/רְבִיבִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Micah 5:7 | 1 |
| כִּ֝/רְבִיבִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 72:6 | 1 |
| רְבִבִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 14:22 | 1 |
| רְבִבִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 3:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7241, 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
- רבו ribbôw H7239 ten thousand
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 9 — 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 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 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.
