ravav · be many

What it means

ravav (רָבַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be many”.

Become many, increase.

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. To become many more than there were.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• are many ×4
• many ×4
• More ×2
• abound ×1
• multiply ×1
• tens of thousands ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3

• Genesis 6:1

  And it happened, when human beings began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

• Job 35:6

  If you sin, what do you do against him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to him?

• Psalms 3:1

  A psalm of David, when he fled from before Absalom his son. YHWH, how many are my adversaries; many are rising against me.

• Psalms 4:7

  You have put joy in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine abound.

• Psalms 25:19

  See my enemies, for they are many, and with a hatred of violence they hate me.

• Psalms 38:19

  And my enemies are alive, they are strong, and many are those who hate me with lies.

• Psalms 69:4

  More than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would annihilate me, my enemies with lies; what I did not steal, then I restore.

• Psalms 104:24

  How many are your works, YHWH! All of them in wisdom you have made; the earth is full of your possessions.

• Psalms 144:13

  our granaries full, supplying from kind to kind; our sheep increasing by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;

• Isaiah 66:16

  For by fire YHWH will enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and many will be the slain of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 5:6

  Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them, a wolf of the steppes will devastate them, a leopard is watching over their cities; everyone who goes out of them will be torn to pieces, for their transgressions are many, their apostasies are mighty.

• Jeremiah 14:7

  Though our iniquities testify against us, YHWH, act for the sake of your name; for our apostasies are many; against you we have sinned.

• Jeremiah 46:23

  They have cut down her forest, declares YHWH, though it cannot be searched out; for they are more numerous than the locust, and they have no number.