Lexical Summary marbith: increase, great number, greatness Original Word: מַרְבִּיתTransliteration: marbith Phonetic Spelling: (mar-beeth') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: increase, great number, greatness Meaning: increase, great number, greatness Strong's Concordance greatest part, greatness, increase, multitude From rabah; a multitude; also offspring; specifically interest (on capital) -- greatest part, greatness, increase, multitude. see HEBREW rabah Brown-Driver-Briggs H4768. marbith מַרְבִּית noun feminine increase, great number, greatness; — ׳מ absolute Leviticus 25:37; construct 1 Samuel 2:33 + 2t.; suffix מַרְבִּיתָם 1 Chronicles 12:30 (van d. H. v.12:29); — 1 increase, concrete: a. of family 1 Samuel 2:33. b. increment, interest, usury, Leviticus 25:37 (H; of food-stuffs, "" נֶשֶׁךְ, of money; ׳מ of money Egyptian Aramaic, opposed to ראש principal, CookeNorth-Semitic Inscr. 404). 2 great number: of people 2 Chronicles 30:18; with suffix = the greater part of them, 1 Chronicles 12:30 (see above). 3 greatness, of wisdom 2 Chronicles 9:6. |
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