Myriad
רְבָבָהStrong’s H7233revavah (re-va-vah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Revavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ten thousand”, “ten thousands his” and “ten thousands of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.”
Meaning
- Multitude, myriad, ten thousand
How it's translated
- ten thousand 4
- ten thousands his 3
- ten thousands of 2
- from ten thousands of 2
- to the ten thousand 1
- ten thousands 1
- and ten thousand 1
- more than ten thousand 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:8And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
- Numbers 10:36And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 32:30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
- Deuteronomy 33:2And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
- Deuteronomy 33:17His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
- Judges 20:10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
רְבָבָה revavah · myriad
multitude, myriad, ten thousand
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “myriad” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MYR'IAD, noun
[Gr. extreme, innumerable.]
- The number of ten thousand.
- An immense number, indefinitely.
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.