1. chief, captain, head official — The noun rav (II) as a title meaning 'chief, captain, head official,' used in compound titles for Babylonian and Assyrian court officers (rav-tabbach 'chief of the guard,' rav-saris 'chief eunuch,' etc.). All four clusters denote the same official title: singular construct chief-of (25x), plural chiefs-of (1x), conjoined plural and-the-chiefs-of (1x), and steward-of (1x, still denoting the chief/head of a household). Arabic ra'isu/rabbu (رَئِيسُ/رَبُّ) 'chief/lord,' Spanish jefe-de 'chief of,' Hindi pradhan (प्रधान) 'chief,' Korean jang (장) 'head/chief,' and Swahili mkuu-wa 'chief of' converge across all clusters. 28×
AR["رَئِيسُ","رَئِيسُ-","رَئِيسِ-","رَبُّ","رَبِّ"]·ben["প্রধান-","প্রধানের-"]·DE["chief-von-","gross"]·EN["chief-of","chief-of-","of","the-chief-of","the-chief-of-"]·FR["chief-de-","nombreux"]·heb["רב","רב-"]·HI["प्रधान-","रब-"]·ID["Rab-","kepala","kepala-"]·IT["capo-di-","grande"]·jav["kepala-","pangageng-","pangarsaning","pangawal-"]·KO["장-","장관-의","장관-이","장관의-","장관이-","장관인-"]·PT["Rav-","chefe-de","chefe-de-"]·RU["Рав-","начальник-","начальником-","с-начальником-"]·ES["el-jefe-de","jefe-de"]·SW["mkuu-wa","mkuu-wa-"]·TR["Rav-","komutani-","şefi-","şefinin-"]·urd["رب-","سردار","سردار-","سردار-نے","سردار-نے-","سردار-کے"]
2 Kgs 25:8, 2 Kgs 25:10, 2 Kgs 25:11, 2 Kgs 25:12, 2 Kgs 25:15, 2 Kgs 25:18, 2 Kgs 25:20, Esth 1:8, Jer 39:9, Jer 39:10, Jer 39:11, Jer 39:13 (+16 more)
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
II. רַב49 n.m. chief (Assyrian-Bab. influence, cf. rab DlHWB 609b; Biblical Aramaic רַב);—cstr. ר׳ Je 39:9 +; pl. cstr. רַבֵּי 39:13; 41:1 (but v. infr.);—especially רַב־ טַבָּחִים chief of guardsmen (v. טַבָּח), only as title of Bab. officer Je 39:9, 10 + 15 times Je, 7 times ‖ 2 K 25 (cf. שַׂר הַטּ׳ in Gn [JE]); also †רַב הַחֹבֵל Jon 1:6 chief of the sailors, i.e. captain; †in gen. כָּל־רַב…