Strong's #7231: rabab (pronounced raw-bab')

a primitive root; properly, to cast together (compare 7241), i.e. increase, especially in number; also (as denominative from 7233) to multiply by the myriad:--increase, be many(-ifold), be more, multiply, ten thousands.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râbab

1) to be or become many, be or become much, be or become great

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be or become many

1a2) to be or become great

1a3) to be long (of journey)

2) (Pual) ten thousands

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

 

Genesis 6:1: "when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters"
Genesis 18:20: "the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;"
1 Samuel 25:10: "and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man"
Job 35:6: "what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest"
Psalms 3:1: "Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up"
Psalms 4:7: "more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased."
Psalms 25:19: "Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred."
Psalms 38:19: "and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied."
Psalms 69:4: "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies"
Psalms 104:24: "O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth"
Psalms 144:13: "all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:"
Ecclesiastes 5:11: "When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving"
Isaiah 22:9: "of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower"
Isaiah 59:12: "For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions"
Isaiah 66:16: "flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many."
Jeremiah 5:6: "that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings"
Jeremiah 14:7: "thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned"
Jeremiah 46:23: "it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable."
Hosea 4:7: " As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame."