Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
myriad
Usage: multitude, myriad, ten thousand
Rebabah means “many” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7233 רְבָבָה (rbabah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. rbabah (reb-aw-baw') n-f. 1. abundance (in number), i.e. (specifically) a myriad (whether definite or indefinite) [from H7231] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include thousands and many. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
rbabah (reb-aw-baw') n-f. 1. abundance (in number), i.e. (specifically) a myriad (whether definite or indefinite) [from H7231] KJV: many, million, X multiply, ten thousand. Root(s): H7231
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myriad
Usage: multitude, myriad, ten thousand
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rbabah, 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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16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7233.
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7233, grouped by book.
Rebabah (Strong's H7233) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "many". rbabah (reb-aw-baw') n-f. 1. abundance (in number), i.e. (specifically) a myriad (whether definite or indefinite) [from H7231]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H7233 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7233 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as thousands and many. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.