Psalm 3/Notes/Lexical.v. 2.437820
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
- The root רבב is, next to the divine name YHWH, the most repeated root in the psalm (four times, vv. 2-3, 7). The first instantiation of this root is the verb become many (רַבּוּ) in v. 2, which SDBH defines simply as a "process by which people... increase in number..." The second and third instantiations of this root occur in the following two lines, with the adjective many (רַבִּים)—"state in which objects or events are numerous in quantity or frequency" (SDBH).