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GreekG4461Noun

ῥαββί

rhabbi

15Occurrences
G4461Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

my master, i.e Rabbi, as an official title of honor

of Hebrew origin (H07227 with pronominal suffix);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
(Heb. and Aram. רַב, my master; see Dalman, Words, 327, 331 ff.), a title of respectful address to Jewish teachers, Rabbi: of John; of Christ; *κύριε ῥ *.† *ῥαββουνεί *(Rec. -βονί, see: ῥαββεί) (Aram. רַבּוֺנִי, later, *רִבּוֺנִי *my master; on the Greek vocalization and the relation of the word to ῥαββεί, see Dalman, Words, 324, 340; Gr., 140; DB, iv, 190) Rabboni.

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

ῥαββί appears 15 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

John
8
Matthew
4
Mark
3

Key Passages

John 1:38BSB

Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked.They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”

John 3:2BSB

He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

John 6:25BSB

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they asked Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

Matthew 23:8BSB

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.

Mark 11:21BSB

Peter remembered it and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.