Daniel 4:20:5Dan.4.20.W5TABWLC Daniel 4:17
רְבָ֖ה
reva
“grew”
- Transliteration
- re-VA
- Extended
- reh-VAA
- IPA
- /rəˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- grew
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
re-VA
- phraseyour reading level
DEE kha-ZAI-ta DEE re-VA
- clause
EE-la-NA DEE kha-ZAI-ta DEE re-VA u-te-KIF
- sentence
EE-la-NA DEE kha-ZAI-ta DEE re-VA u-te-KIF veh-roo-MEH yim-TE lish-ma-YA va-kha-zo-TEH le-KHOL-ar-A
Exegesis
The second dî introduces a further relative clause, dî rĕḇā wətaqqîp {דִּי רְבָה וְתַקִּף | dî rə-ḇā wə-taq-qîp}, in which rĕḇā ‘grew great’ is a Peal perfect verb and wətaqqîp ‘and (was) strong’ is an adjectival predicate coordinated to it, portraying both growth and resulting power.
Root and etymology
r-b-hresh–bet–heh
“to be great, grow, increase”
In context — Daniel 4:20
The tree that you saw, which grew great and strong, whose height reached to the heavens , and whose appearance was visible to all the earth.
About this coordinate
Daniel 4:20:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Daniel 4:20, so the Hebrew word רְבָ֖ה (reva) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Dan.4.20.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.4.20.W5.S1) and character.