Myriad
רִבּוֹStrong’s H7240ribbo (rib-bo)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ribbo is the Aramaic word usually translated “myriad of” and “myriads”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
Meaning
- Myriad, ten thousand times ten thousand
How it's translated
- and a myriad of 1
- myriads 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
רִבּוֹ ribbo · myriad
myriad, ten thousand times ten thousand Aramaic of rib.bo (רִבּוֹ "ten thousand" H7239)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.