ῥαββί

See also: ραββί

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ῥαββονί (rhabboní), ῥαββουνί (rhabbouní)

Etymology

From Aramaic רבי (“rabbi, spiritual teacher”). Cf. Hebrew רַבִּי (rabī́, “my master”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ab.bǐː/ → /raβˈβi/ → /raˈvi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ab.bǐː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rabˈbi/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raβˈβi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ravˈvi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /raˈvi/

Noun

ῥᾰββῑ́ • (rhabbī́) m (indeclinable)

1. (biblical, Koine) O my Master
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23:7
   • The Gospel of Mark 9:5
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 1:38

Declension

Declension of ὁ ῥᾰββῑ́; τοῦ ῥᾰββῑ́ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ ῥᾰββῑ́ ho rhabbī́
Genitive	τοῦ ῥᾰββῑ́ toû rhabbī́
Dative	τῷ ῥᾰββῑ́ tôi rhabbī́
Accusative	τὸν ῥᾰββῑ́ tòn rhabbī́
Vocative	ῥᾰββῑ́ rhabbī́
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ραββί (ravví)
• → Latin: rabbī (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: рабби (rabbi)

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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible