What is the Strong's number for Rab?

The Strong's number for Rab (רַב) is H7227. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Rab (Strong’s H7227): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Rab mean?

Rab (רַב, Strong's H7227) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality). The King James Bible translates it as (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).

Rab (רַב) is the Hebrew word numbered H7227 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality). In the King James Bible it is translated (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder.

רַב

rab · Hebrew

Strong’s H7227 · rab

Original wordרַב
Transliterationrab
Pronunciationrab
Part of speech(a n-m)
Strong’s numberH7227
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

Derivation. by contracted from H7231;

How the King James Bible translates it

(in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).

Where Rab appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Rab (H7227) stands behind 456 English renderings in 437 verses across 35 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (57), Ezekiel (47), Jeremiah (41).

How the King James Bible renders Rab, by count

many190 of 456 (42 percent)
great118 of 456 (26 percent)
much36 of 456 (8 percent)
captain24 of 456 (5 percent)
more12 of 456 (3 percent)
long10 of 456 (2 percent)

Three places to read Rab

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
2 Chronicles 28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Rab in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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