Lexical Definition

‎רַבָּה‎ Rabbâh (rab-baw') Rabbah ^N:N--L
feminine of ‎רַב‎; great

Rabbah, Rabbath.

• § Rabbath = "great"
• Rabbah, the name of two places in Palestine, East and West

1) the capital city of the Ammonites located east of the Jordan
2) a town in Judah; site uncertain

Extended Information

name of: עַמּוֹן

• Rabbath = "great"
• Another name of am.mon (‎ע‎ַ‎מ‎ּ‎ו‎ֹ‎ן‎ "Ammon" עַמּוֹן)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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, Lag^{onom 215, 94; 219, 82} (but Ραββατμανα Polyb^{v. 71.4}), modern Ammâ 13 1/2 miles northeast from Heshbon, 28 1/2 miles east of Jordan; compare Buhl^Geogr.260;- ᵐ5 Ραββαθ, Ραββα

2. ‎הָרַבָּה‎ city in Judah Josh 15:60 (P), site unknow; — ᵐ5 Σωθηβα, A ᵐ5^L Αρεββα.

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