רַב rab — abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Translated in the KJV as abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase.
by contracted from H7231; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality).
rab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Participle (active) 1
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›