H7237

רַבָּה

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Rabbah

Rabbath = "great" the capital city of the Ammonites located east of the Jordan Another name of am.mon (עַמּוֹן "Ammon" H5983)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

צִידוֺן and (Gen 10:15; Gen 10:19; Gen 49:3) צִידֹן proper name, of a location Sidon, Σιδων, ancient Phoenician city, on coast north of Tyre (in Assyrian ‚idum( n)u, COTGloss; Tel Amarna ‚iduna, Phoenician צדן, Old Aramaic צידן; in Egyptian D±-(d)u-na, WMMAs.u.Eur.184); — 'first-born' of Canaan Gen 10:15 = 1Chr 1:13 northern limit of Canaanite Gen 10:19, compare Gen 49:13 defined as רַבָּה ׳צ Josh 11:8 (so Josh 19:28 below); also Judg 1:31; Judg 10:6 (׳אֱהֵֹי צ), Judg 18:28; 1Kgs 17:9 named with Tyre Josh 19:28 (compare vJosh 19:29), 2Sam 24:6 (compare v2Sam 24:7), Isa 23:2; Isa 23:4 and ׳בְּתוּלַת בַּתצֿ vIsa 23:12 (compare vIsa 23:5 etc.), Jer 25:22; Jer 27:3; Jer 47:4; Ezek 27:8; Ezek 28:21; Ezek 28:22 (compare vEzek 28:2 vEzek 28:12), Zech 9:2; Joel 4:4. — See PietschmPhöniz. 54 ff. PrutzAus Phönicien (1876), 98 ff. RobBR ii.478 ff. de LuynesVoyage à la mer Morte i 18 ff., and Plural vi-xi. BdPal 3 (1898), 313 ff.



רַבָּה proper name, of a location Rabba (properly great or populous, that is, city); —

1. capital of Ammonites explicitly, רַבַּת בְּנֵי עַמּוֺן 2Sam 12:26; 2Sam 12:27; 2Sam 17:27; Deut 3:11; Jer 49:2; Ezek 21:25 רַבָּה alone 2Sam 11:1 || 1Chr 20:1 (twice in verse), Amos 1:14; Jer 49:3; Ezek 25:5; Josh 13:25 (P); with ה locative רַבָּ֑תָה 2Sam 12:29 in Greek Period Philadelphia, Lagonom 215, 94; 219, 82 (but Ραββατμανα Polybv. 71.4), modern Ammâ 13 1/2 miles northeast from Heshbon, 28 1/2 miles east of Jordan; compare BuhlGeogr.260;- ᵐ5 Ραββαθ, Ραββα
2. הָרַבָּה city in Judah Josh 15:60 (P), site unknow; — ᵐ5 Σωθηβα, A ᵐ5L Αρεββα.


12 occurrences

Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (1), II Samuel (5), I Chronicles (1), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (1), Amos (1)