Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥαββονί ‎(rhabboní)
• ῥαββουνί ‎(rhabbouní)

Noun

ῥᾰββῑ́ • ‎(rhabbī́) m ‎(indeclinable)

1. (biblical) O my Master
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23.7
   • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 9.5
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 1.38

Declension

Descendants

• English: rabbi
• Latin: rabbī

References

• ῥαββί in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥαββί in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ῥαββί» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4461”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979