revava · ten thousand, myriad

What it means

revava (רְבָבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ten thousand, myriad”.

Ten thousand; a countless multitude.

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 very large number: ten times a thousand, or a countless crowd.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• myriads ×8
• ten thousand ×5
• myriad ×1
• ten thousands ×1
• tens of thousands ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 24:60

  They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate it.”

• Leviticus 26:8

  And five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

• Numbers 10:36

  And when it rested, he would say, “Return, YHWH, to the myriads of the thousands of Israel.”

• Deuteronomy 32:30

  How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and YHWH had handed them over?

• Deuteronomy 33:2

  And he said, “YHWH came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of holy ones; at his right hand a fire of law for them.

• Deuteronomy 33:17

  The firstborn of his bull, splendor is his, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he will gore the peoples, all together, to the ends of the earth. And they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

• Judges 20:10

  And we will take ten men of a hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to take provisions for the people, so that they may act, when they come to Geba of Benjamin, according to all the infamy that it has done in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 18:7

  The women who were making merry answered and said, “Saul has struck his thousands, and David his myriads.”

• 1 Samuel 18:8

  Saul was greatly incensed, and this word was evil in his eyes; and he said, “They have given to David myriads, and to me they have given the thousands; and now for him there is only the kingdom!”

• 1 Samuel 21:11

  The servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David, the king of the land? Is it not of this one that they answered one another in the dances, saying, ‘Saul has struck his thousands, and David his myriads’?”

• 1 Samuel 29:5

  Is this not David, of whom they answered one another in the dances, saying, ‘Saul has struck his thousands, and David his myriads’?”

• Psalms 3:6

  I will not fear the tens of thousands of the people who have set themselves against me all around.

• Psalms 91:7

  A thousand will fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; to you it will not come near.

• Song of Songs 5:10

  My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

• Ezekiel 16:7

  A myriad, like the growth of the field, I made you, and you grew and became tall and came to the ornament of ornaments; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

• Micah 6:7

  Will YHWH be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriads of torrents of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my womb for the sin of my soul?