H7235A–רָבָה–ra.vah

You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

הִרְבֵּיתֶ֥ם hir.bei.Tem “you have multiplied”

And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.

וַתִּרְבִּי֙ (תִּרְבִּי֙) tir.Bi “you grew”

You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.

וַתַּרְבִּ֖י (תַּרְבִּ֖י) tar.Bi “you increased”

And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

וַתַּרְבִּ֥י (תַּרְבִּ֥י) tar.Bi “you increased”

And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough.

וַתַּרְבִּ֧י (תַּרְבִּ֧י) tar.Bi “you increased”

And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.

וַתַּרְבִּ֤י (תַּרְבִּ֤י) tar.Bi “you have increased”

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

רִבְּתָ֥ה ri.be.Tah “she reared”

In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.

וְהַרְבֵּה֙ (הַרְבֵּה֙) har.Beh “[may be] many”

Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.

הִרְבּ֥וּ hir.Bu “they have multiplied”

But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

וַתַּרְבֶּ֖ה (תַּרְבֶּ֖ה) tar.Beh “she increased”

Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.

הַרְבֵּ֤ה har.Beh “increase”

By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

הִרְבִּ֣יתָ hir.Bi.ta “you have increased”

In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.

וַתִּרְבֶּ֨ינָה (תִּרְבֶּ֨ינָה) tir.Bei.nah “they became great”

And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֤י (הִרְבֵּיתִ֤י) hir.bei.Ti “I will multiply”

Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י (הִרְבֵּיתִ֧י) hir.bei.Ti “I will multiply”וְרָב֣וּ (רָב֣וּ) ra.Vu “they will increase”

And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣י (הִרְבֵּיתִ֣י) hir.bei.Ti “I will increase”

And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

וְהִרְבֵּיתִי֙ (הִרְבֵּיתִי֙) hir.bei.Ti “I will increase”

This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

אַרְבֶּ֥ה 'ar.Beh “I will increase”

And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣י (הִרְבֵּיתִ֣י) hir.bei.Ti “I will increase”

And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.

יַרְבֶּ֣ה yar.Beh “he will increase”

But as for you, O Daniel, let the words be kept secret and the book rolled up and kept shut till the time of the end: numbers will be going out of the way and troubles will be increased.

וְתִרְבֶּ֥ה (תִרְבֶּ֥ה) tir.Beh “it may increase”

For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

הִרְבֵּ֥יתִי hir.Bei.ti “I multiplied”

Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

כְּרֻבָּ֖ם (רֻבָּ֖) ru.Ba “increased”

Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

הִרְבָּ֥ה hir.Bah “he has multiplied”

For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

הִרְבָּ֖ה hir.Bah “he has multiplied”