רַבrab
archer (Jeremiah 50:29; Job 16:13)
Pronunciation: rab · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7228
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 16:13 and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.
- Proverbs 26:10 An employer who hires a fool or a bystander is like an archer who shoots at random.
- Jeremiah 50:29 “Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).