Strong's #7235: rabah (pronounced raw-baw')
a primitive root; to increase (in whatever respect):--(bring in) abundance (X -antly), + archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, X continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, X -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), X process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
râbâh
1) be or become great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to become many, become numerous, multiply (of people, animals, things)
1a2) to be or grow great
1b) (Piel) to make large, enlarge, increase, become many
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to make much, make many, have many
1c1a) to multiply, increase
1c1b) to make much to do, do much in respect of, transgress greatly
1c1c) to increase greatly or exceedingly
1c2) to make great, enlarge, do much
2) (Qal) to shoot
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2103, 2104
Usage:
This word is used 224 times:
Ecclesiastes 1:16: "me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
Ecclesiastes 2:7: "in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all"
Ecclesiastes 5:7: "For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear"
Ecclesiastes 5:11: "When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving"
Ecclesiastes 5:12: "he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer"
Ecclesiastes 5:17: "also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness."
Ecclesiastes 5:20: "For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because"
Ecclesiastes 6:11: "Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man"
Ecclesiastes 6:11: "there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?"
Ecclesiastes 7:16: "Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why"
Ecclesiastes 7:17: "Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die"
Ecclesiastes 9:18: "of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good."
Ecclesiastes 10:14: "A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be;"
Ecclesiastes 11:8: "if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember"
Ecclesiastes 11:8: "of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 12:9: "knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs."
Ecclesiastes 12:12: "by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end;"
Ecclesiastes 12:12: "many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."
Isaiah 1:15: "from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands"
Isaiah 9:3: " Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy"
Isaiah 23:16: "that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered."
Isaiah 30:33: "he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD,"
Isaiah 40:29: "to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."
Isaiah 51:2: "I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased"
Isaiah 55:7: "upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
Isaiah 57:9: "And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off,"
Jeremiah 2:22: "though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before"
Jeremiah 3:16: "And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith"
Jeremiah 23:3: "I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase."
Jeremiah 29:6: "that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished."
Jeremiah 30:19: "thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not"
Jeremiah 33:22: "of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant,"
Jeremiah 42:2: "(for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold"
Jeremiah 46:11: "the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured."
Jeremiah 46:16: " He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said,"
Lamentations 2:5: "her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation."
Lamentations 2:22: "escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed."
Ezekiel 11:6: " Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain."
Ezekiel 16:7: "thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments:"
Ezekiel 16:25: "thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms."
Ezekiel 16:26: "the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger."
Ezekiel 16:29: " Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet"
Ezekiel 16:51: "committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified"
Ezekiel 19:2: "she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions."
Ezekiel 21:15: "their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up"
Ezekiel 22:25: "they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst"
Ezekiel 23:19: " Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein"
Ezekiel 24:10: " Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well,"
Ezekiel 28:5: "By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:"
Ezekiel 31:5: "above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long"
