ten thousand
rib.bo denotes a very large numerical quantity, used for counted resources, populations, multitudes, and abundant instruction.
The attested forms mark very large quantities in enumerations of donated resources and assembled people, as well as in references to multitudes and abundant instruction. Singular cardinal forms occur in explicit numerical totals, while plural forms occur where the APB presents “tens of thousands” or “myriads.”
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Very large counted quantity · dominant
The term occurs in numerical statements about gifts, assemblies, and populations: in 1 Chronicles 29:7 the APB renders a list including “ten thousand” units of gold and silver, and in Ezra 2:64 and Nehemiah 7:71 it renders totals for an assembly and treasury gifts. Plural forms also occur where the APB renders “tens of thousands” cast down in Daniel 11:12 and “myriads” of instruction in Hosea 8:12; in Jonah 4:11 the verse describes a city with more than one hundred twenty thousand people.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term through explicit large numbers in lists and totals, and through “tens of thousands” and “myriads” in Daniel 11:12 and Hosea 8:12. Psalm 68:18 does not plainly isolate the contribution of its dual cardinal form.