רִבּוֹ

ribo · ten thousand, myriad

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7239 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

Ten thousand; also a very large, countless number ("myriad").

How to say it

ri·bo

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.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • twenty thousand ×3
  • forty-two thousand three hundred sixty ×2
  • eighteen thousand ×1
  • sixty-one thousand ×1
  • ten thousand ×1
  • tens of thousands ×1
  • two myriads ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • 1 Chronicles 29:7

    they gave for the service of the house of Elohim five thousand talents of gold and ten thousand darics, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

  • Ezra 2:64

    The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

  • Ezra 2:69

    According to their strength they gave to the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand drachmas of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred tunics of priests.

  • Nehemiah 7:66

    The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

  • Nehemiah 7:71

    And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand drachmas of gold and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

  • Nehemiah 7:72

    And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven tunics of priests.

  • Psalms 68:17

    The chariots of Elohim are two myriads, thousands and more thousands; Adonai is among them, Sinai in the holy place.

  • Daniel 11:12

    And the multitude will be carried away, and his heart will be lifted up, and he will bring down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail.

  • Jonah 4:11

    And I, should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand human beings who do not know how to tell between their right hand and their left, and much livestock?”

And 1 more times.