rov · abundance

What it means

rov (רֹב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “abundance”.

Great number; greatness.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A great amount, so large that it is not measured.
2. A great crowd of people or things.
3. The great measure of power or goodness someone shows.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Abundance, a great quantity; multitude. BDB: abundance, in any respect. It comes from רָבַב, “to multiply”.

• “It cannot be counted because of its multitude” Genesis 16:10Genesis 32:12
• “By the abundance of your loyal love” Psalms 5:7Psalms 51:1
• “According to the abundance of his greatness” Psalms 150:2
• “Like locusts in multitude” Judges 7:12

How we translate it

“Abundance” 71 times, “multitude” 37, “greatness” 6, “great” 5, “much” 5, “great number” 4… It is “multitude” when people or animals are counted, and “abundance” elsewhere.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• abundance ×71
• multitude ×37
• greatness ×6
• great ×5
• much ×5
• Many ×4
• great number ×4
• abundant ×3
• great numbers ×3
• all ×2
• others ×9

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×2
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×8
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×11
• 2 Chronicles×26
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×2
• Job×7
• Psalms×17
• Proverbs×12
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×12
• Hosea×4
• Nahum×2
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 16:10

  The angel of YHWH said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, so that it cannot be counted because of its multitude.”

• Genesis 27:28

  May Elohim give you of the dew of the heavens and of the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 30:30

  For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly, and YHWH has blessed you at my coming. But now, when will I too do something for my own house?”

• Genesis 32:12

  But you said, ‘I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of its abundance.’”

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the young men; and in them let my name be called, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them teem in multitude in the midst of the earth.”

• Exodus 15:7

  In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow those who rise against you; you send out your burning anger; it consumes them like stubble.

• Leviticus 25:16

  The more the years, the more you shall increase its price, and the fewer the years, the more you shall decrease its price; for it is a number of harvests that he is selling to you.

• Deuteronomy 1:10

  YHWH your Elohim has multiplied you, and look, you are today like the stars of the heavens in multitude.

• Deuteronomy 7:7

  It was not because you were more numerous than all the peoples that YHWH set his affection on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples;

• Deuteronomy 10:22

  With seventy persons your fathers went down to Egypt, and now YHWH your Elohim has made you like the stars of the heavens in multitude.

• Deuteronomy 28:47

  Because you did not serve YHWH your Elohim with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

• Deuteronomy 28:62

  And you will be left few in number, whereas you were like the stars of the heavens in multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH your Elohim.

• Joshua 9:13

  And these wineskins that we filled new, look, they have split; and these cloaks of ours and our sandals have worn out from the very great length of the journey.”

• Joshua 11:4

  They came out, they and all their camps with them, a people as many as the sand that is on the shore of the sea, in multitude, and horses and chariots, very many.

• Judges 6:5

  For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, and they would come like locusts in multitude; both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

• Judges 7:12

  Midian and Amalek and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley like locusts in multitude; and their camels were without number, like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude.

• 1 Samuel 1:16

  Do not regard your servant as a wicked woman, for out of the greatness of my complaint and my grief I have spoken until now.”

• 1 Samuel 13:5

  The Philistines gathered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude. They came up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

• 2 Samuel 17:11

  So I counsel that all Israel be surely gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, and that you in person go into battle.

• 1 Kings 1:19

  He has sacrificed oxen, fatted animals, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army; but Solomon your servant he has not invited.

• 1 Kings 1:25

  For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen, fatted animals, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, and the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and there they are, eating and drinking before him; and they have said, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

• 1 Kings 3:8

  And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered or counted for multitude.

• 1 Kings 4:20

  Judah and Israel were many, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

• 1 Kings 7:47

  And Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because of the exceedingly great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not investigated.

• 1 Kings 8:5

  And King Solomon and all the community of Israel who had gathered to him were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

• 1 Kings 10:10

  And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones; never again came such spices in abundance as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:27

  And the king made silver in Jerusalem like stones, and cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• 2 Kings 19:23

  Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

• 1 Chronicles 4:38

  These, those mentioned by name, were chiefs in their families, and their fathers’ houses spread out greatly.

• 1 Chronicles 12:40

  And also those near to them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on cattle: food of flour, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 22:3

  David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and bronze in abundance beyond weighing,

• 1 Chronicles 22:4

  and timbers of cedar without number, for the Sidonians and the Tyrians had brought timbers of cedar in abundance to David.

• 1 Chronicles 22:5

  David said, “Solomon my son is a youth and tender, and the house that is to be built for YHWH must be made great exceedingly, for renown and for beauty in all the lands. Let me now prepare it for him.” So David prepared in abundance before his death.

• 1 Chronicles 22:8

  But the word of YHWH came to me, saying, ‘Blood in abundance you have shed, and great wars you have waged. You shall not build a house for my name, for much blood you have shed on the earth before me.

• 1 Chronicles 22:14

  Look, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of YHWH a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for it is in abundance. And timber and stones I have prepared; and to them you will add.

• 1 Chronicles 22:15

  You have with you in abundance those who do the work: stonecutters, and workers in stone and wood, and all who are skilled in every kind of work.

• 1 Chronicles 29:2

  With all my strength I have prepared for the house of my Elohim the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood; onyx stones and stones for setting, stones of antimony and of colors, and every precious stone, and marble stones in abundance.

• 1 Chronicles 29:21

  They sacrificed sacrifices to YHWH and offered burnt offerings to YHWH on the day after that day: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their libations and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 1:15

  The king made the silver and the gold in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 2:9

  to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful.

And 109 more times.