יָרֵב
ya.rev
`great`
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analysis of יָרֵב (yarev) — "Great" The Hebrew word יָרֵב appears twelve times in the biblical text with the fundamental meaning of "great." This relatively modest frequency suggests it functioned as one of several synonymous terms available to biblical writers for expressing magnitude or significance. The word's presence across multiple instances indicates it was a recognized part of the Hebrew vocabulary for describing scale and importance, though not the most common choice for this concept. The definition "great" encompasses both literal and abstract applications typical of ancient Hebrew expression. Without access to the specific contexts of all twelve occurrences, the lexical data indicates that יָרֵב could describe physical largeness, numerical abundance, or intensified qualities—the typical semantic range of greatness terminology across languages. Its limited but deliberate use in the biblical corpus suggests it may have carried particular stylistic or emphatic weight in specific textual contexts, though determining those nuances would require examining individual verses.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
12 total occurrences across the text
Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.
2 Chronicles 28:20Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
2 Kings 16:7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
2 Kings 16:7So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
2 Kings 16:10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
2 Kings 16:10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
1 Chronicles 5:6and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
1 Chronicles 5:6and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
1 Chronicles 5:26So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
1 Chronicles 5:26So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.