What is the Strong's number for Rabah?

The Strong's number for Rabah (רָבָה) is H7235. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Rabah (Strong’s H7235): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Rabah mean?

Rabah (רָבָה, Strong's H7235) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to increase (in whatever respect). The King James Bible translates it as (bring in) abundance (× -antly), archer (by mistake for H7232), be in authority, bring up, × continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, × -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), × process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.

Rabah (רָבָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H7235 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to increase (in whatever respect). In the King James Bible it is translated archer (by mistake for H7232), be in authority, bring up, enlarge, excel.

רָבָה

râbâh · Hebrew

Strong’s H7235 · raw-baw'

Original wordרָבָה
Transliterationrâbâh
Pronunciationraw-baw'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH7235
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to increase (in whatever respect)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

(bring in) abundance (× -antly), archer (by mistake for H7232), be in authority, bring up, × continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, × -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), × process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Rabah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Rabah (H7235) stands behind 227 English renderings in 211 verses across 31 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (30), Deuteronomy (20), Ezekiel (20).

How the King James Bible renders Rabah, by count

multiply41 of 227 (18 percent)
much29 of 227 (13 percent)
multiplied29 of 227 (13 percent)
many28 of 227 (12 percent)
increase19 of 227 (8 percent)
increased15 of 227 (7 percent)

Three places to read Rabah

Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
2 Samuel 12:2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

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 Rabah 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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