רְבָבָהrᵉbâbâh
multitude, myriad, ten thousand, myriad, 10,000, of great number of persons (Genesis 24:60; 1 Samuel 18:7; 1 Samuel 18:8; Micah 6:7; Deuteronomy 33:17)
Pronunciation: reb-aw-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7233
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:60 They gave her this blessing as she parted: “Our sister, may you become the mother of many millions! May your descendants be strong and conquer the cities of their enemies.”
- Leviticus 26:8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand! All your enemies will fall beneath your sword.
- Numbers 10:36 And when the Ark was set down, he would say, “Return, O Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel!”
- Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one person chase a thousand of them, and two people put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?
- Deuteronomy 33:2 “The Lord came from Mount Sinai and dawned upon us from Mount Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran and came from Meribah-kadesh with flaming fire at his right hand.
- Deuteronomy 33:17 Joseph has the majesty of a young bull; he has the horns of a wild ox. He will gore distant nations, even to the ends of the earth. This is my blessing for the multitudes of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.”
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).