noun · feminine
raab
Strong’sG4460
Rahab
stem raab-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Ῥαάβ (and Ραχάβ, Mt 1:5; Ραχάβη, -ης, in FlJ), ἡ, indecl.
(Heb. רָחָב),
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(and Ραχάβ, Mat.1:5; Ραχάβη, -ης, in FlJ), ἡ, indecl. (Heb. רָחָב)
Rahab (LXX, Jos.2:1, al.): Heb.11:31, Jas.2:25.†
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| 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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
raab“Rahab”subjectnominative singular2×
Hebrews 11:31pistia Raab tas pornas ouk sunapoleta toi apeitharantoi, …By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in …
James 2:25homoiōs de kai Raab tas pornas ouk ek ergeiu dikaiita, …… the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions …