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רֹ֫הָב

arrogance

H7296 Strong's Hebrew
rôhâb Transliteration
/ro'-hab/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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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.

רהב (rôhâb) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “arrogance.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Psalms dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Psalms 90:10. Sharing its root, it stands alongside רהב, רהב and רהב. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
strength
Modern gloss
arrogance
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 BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H7296 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Psalms 90:10
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Psalms 90:10.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 1 · 100%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

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  • King James Version: Is their strength 1×
  • American Standard Version: Is their pride 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Pride 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Expanse 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H7296 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Is their strength” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H7296 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Is their pride” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H7296 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Pride” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H7296 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Expanse” 1×

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.

  1. arrogance, pride, object of pride

Word origin

[ רֹ֫הָב ] n.[m.] pride, i.e. obj. of pride;—sf. ψ 90:10

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from רהב (râhab) (H7292) — to act proudly.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 2125b


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.

רָהַב

  • (b. h.) [to be great; to boast,] to acknowledge the authority of, submit to. Ex. R. s. 27 (ref. to התרפס ורהב, Prov. VI, 3) התרפס … והמליכם עליך be trodden in the dust of the feet of those greater than thyself and make them kings over thee; v. רַהַב. e.g. Proverbs 6:3
    • to declare great, do homage to. Cant. R. to VI, 5 (expl. הרהיבני ib.) שהם הִרְהִיבוּנִי הם המליכו וכ׳ for they (the children at the Red Sea) did me homage, made me king over them, saying (Ex. XV, 18), ‘the Lord shall reign &c.; ib. שהם הרהיבוני הם קבלו וכ׳ for they (the elders) did me homage, they accepted my rulership over them at Sinai (Ex. XXIV, 7). e.g. Exodus 15:18

*רְהַב

  • , to be proud, arrogant. Targ. Ps. XXII, 8 ירהבון ed. Lag. (oth. ed. ידחכין; h. text לעג). Targ. Job XI, 3 ed. Vien. (oth. ed. דחכ׳; ed. Lag. דהיכ׳; corr. acc.).

רַהַב

  • preced.)
  • 1. pride, greatness, royalty. Ex. R. s. 27 (v. רָהַב) אין ר׳ אלא מלכות rahab means rulership (ref. to Ps. LXXXVII, 4); a. e. e.g. Psalms 87:4
  • 2. Rahab, name of the genius of the sea. Tanḥ. Ḥuck. 1 את מוצא … ר׳ שמו you will find that the chief of the sea is named Rahab (ref. to Job XXVI, 12); Num. R. s. 18; B. Bath. 74ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Job 26:12

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.


Same root — word family

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Septuagint verse parallels

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