To multiply ten thousand
רָבַבStrong’s H7232ravav (ra-vav)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ravav is the Hebrew word usually translated “shot”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:”
Meaning
- (Qal) to shoot
How it's translated
- and they shot 1
- he shot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רָבַב ravav · to multiply ten thousand
(Qal) to shoot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOT, noun
- The act of shooting; discharge of a missile weapon.
- A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet.
- Small globular masses of lead, used for killing fowls and other small animals.
- The flight of a missile weapon, or the distance which it passes from the engine; as a cannon shot; a musket shot; a pistol shot; a bow shot.
All definitions
- A reckoning; charge or proportional share of expense. [See Scot.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.