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rbw, rbwtˀ (rebbū/ō, rebbōṯā) num. ten thousand
ten thousand
Common Aramaic
PAT280:1.4↗ dy šmš wšpr lhwn bˀsṭrṭgwth wmgd lbwlˀ zwzyn rbw : who served and did well for them during his command and bestowed ten thousand zuz on the senate ; SamTgJ Num10:36↗ רבואת אלפי ישראל‏ ; P Gn24:60↗ ܐܢܬܝ ܗܘܝ ܠܐ̈ܠܦܐ ܘܠܪ̈ܒܘܬܐ‏ ; IshDeut 137:19↗ ܝܘܢܬܢ܂ ܪܒܘܬܐ ܥܣܪܐ ܐ̈ܠܦܐ܂ ܐܚܪ̈ܢܐ݂ ܕܡܐܐ ܐܠܦ̈ܝܢ‏ ; BT San 26a(46)↗ דשבנא הוה דריש לתלי סרי ריבואתא וחזקיה הוה דריש לחד סרי ריבואתא‏ : for Shebna would teach before thirteen myriads while Hezekiah would teach before eleven myriads ; Rahmi 117.150:16↗ uruban ruban hauin aluatẖ : tens of thousands are its leaves
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Mand. only pl. abs. attested (and in epigraphic texts sometimes spelled as rubgan!); JBA: ריבבתא , pl. רבוון ; LJLA pl. also רבבתא
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Note the cited passage from IshDeut showing that the actual numerical value of this word was not clear to all readers in later times. We suspect that even fewer bible readers in our own times know how many in a "myriad"!
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1424[707]DJPA: 513aDJBA: 1072aJastrow: 1440Drower/Macuch: 428aPayne-Smith: 3788J. Payne-Smith: 526Levy Ch-W: 2:399Tal Sam: 811DNWSI: 1052DCPA[Schulthess]: 387[188]Qumran: 218

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