Great
רַבְרַבStrong’s H7260ravrav (rav-rav)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ravrav is the Aramaic word usually translated “great”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.”
Meaning
- Greatgreat (fig. of power)
- Captain, chief
How it's translated
- great 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 8
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:3In contextHow great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
- Daniel 7:3In contextAnd four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:8In contextI considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
- Daniel 7:11In contextI beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
- Daniel 7:17In contextThese great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Aramaic dictionary
רַבְרַב ravrav · great
adj 1) great 1a) great 1b) great (fig. of power) n 2) captain, chief
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “great” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GREAT, adjective
[Latin crassus.]
- Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
- Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
- Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
- Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
All definitions and other forms of “great”
- Long continued; as a great while.
- Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
- Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
- Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
- Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
- Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
- Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
- Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great
- Dignified in aspect, mien or manner.
- Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded.
- Rich; sumptuous; magnificent.
- Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
- Dignified; noble.
- Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
- Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road.
- Pregnant; teeming; as great with young.
- Hard; difficult.
- Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
- Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 1:6
- Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc.
- Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.
GREAT, noun
The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great
- People of rank or distinction.
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.