noun · feminine

raab

GreekῬαάβ (raab)

Strong’sG4460

Rahab

stem raab-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Rahab2×

What it means

Ῥαάβ (and Ραχάβ, Mt 1:5; Ραχάβη, -ης, in FlJ), ἡ, indecl.

(Heb. רָחָב),

Rahab (LXX, Jos 2:1, al.): He 11:31, Ja 2:25.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4460 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhrah-ab'

Raab (i.e. Rachab), a Canaanitess

Fromof Hebrew origin (G7343);

King JamesRahab.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	raab2×Ῥαὰβ	raab
object accusative	raab	raab
direct address vocative	raab	raab
of, belonging to genitive	raab	raab
to, for dative	raab	raab

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

raabstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

raab“Rahab”subjectnominative singular2×

Hebrews 11:31“Rahab”pistia Raab tas pornas ouk sunapollueta toi apeitharatoi, decheratas toin kataskopoin meta eirēnau.By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.

James 2:25“Rahab”homoiōs de kai Raab tas pornas ouk ek ergeiu dikaiita, hupodecheratas toin angeloin kai hetera hoda ekballaratas?In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?