Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
great
Usage: adj 1) great 1a) great 1b) great (fig of power) n 2) captain, chief
Rab means “captain” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7229 רַב (rab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. rab (rab) adj. 1. captain, chief, great, lord, master, stout [(Aramaic) corresponding to H7227] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include great, master, lord, captain, and chief. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
rab (rab) adj. 1. captain, chief, great, lord, master, stout [(Aramaic) corresponding to H7227] Root(s): H7227
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great
Usage: adj 1) great 1a) great 1b) great (fig of power) n 2) captain, chief
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rab, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7229.
And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7229, grouped by book.
Rab (Strong's H7229) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "captain". rab (rab) adj. 1. captain, chief, great, lord, master, stout [(Aramaic) corresponding to H7227]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H7229 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7229 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as great, master, lord, captain, and chief. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.