רַבְרְבָן
lord
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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 7 times (78%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (22%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7261 appears — 8 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 8 verses
- Daniel 4:36 וְ/רַבְרְבָנַ֖/י conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.
- Daniel 5:1 לְ/רַבְרְבָנ֖וֹ/הִי prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- Daniel 5:2 וְ/רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹ/הִי conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from it.
- Daniel 5:3 וְ/רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹ/הִי conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
- Daniel 5:9 וְ/רַבְרְבָנ֖וֹ/הִי conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
- Daniel 5:10 וְ/רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹ/הִי conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms [Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.
- Daniel 5:23 ו/רברבני/ך וְ/רַבְרְבָנָ֜/ךְ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
- Daniel 6:17 רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹ/הִי n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
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.
רברבן — transliterated rabrᵉbân — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “lord.” Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). Spanning 8 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Daniel 4:36, it then recurs through the corpus. The King James Version usually renders it “lords,” while modern versions prefer “nobles” (Berean Standard Bible) and “noblemen” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7261 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 8 verses 100%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 100%
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: Lords 6×, Princes 2×
- American Standard Version: Lords 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nobles 6×, Along with his nobles 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Noblemen 6×, Nobles 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7261 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7261 across 8 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7261 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7261 across 9 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 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.
- lord, noble
Word origin
[ רַבְרְבָן ] n.m. lord, noble
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רברב (rabrab) (H7260) — great.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H7261 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹ/הִי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Daniel 5:2 | 3 |
| ו/רברבני/ך | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Daniel 5:23 | 1 |
| וְ/רַבְרְבָנ֖וֹ/הִי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Daniel 5:9 | 1 |
| וְ/רַבְרְבָנַ֖/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 4:36 | 1 |
| וְ/רַבְרְבָנָ֜/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 5:23 | 1 |
| לְ/רַבְרְבָנ֖וֹ/הִי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Daniel 5:1 | 1 |
| רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹ/הִי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Daniel 6:17 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 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.
