Rabbi

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late Old English, via ecclesiastical Latin and Greek from Hebrew rabbī ‘my master’, from raḇ ‘master’.


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From Middle English raby, from Ecclesiastical Latin rabbi, and its source Koine Greek ῥαββί(rhabbí), from (post-Tanakh) Hebrew רַבִּי‎ (rabbi, “my master”), from רַב‎ (rav, “master [of]”) +‎ ־י‎ (-i, “me”). Compare late Old English rabbi.


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rabbi (n.)

"Jewish doctor of religious law," early 14c. (in late Old English in biblical context only, as a form of address); in Middle English as a title prefixed to personal names, also "a spiritual master" generally; from Late Latin rabbi, from Greek rhabbi, from Mishnaic Hebrew rabbi "my master."


This is formed from -i, first person singular pronominal suffix, + rabh "master, great one," title of respect for Jewish doctors of law. This is from the Semitic root r-b-b "to be great or numerous" (compare robh "multitude;" Aramaic rabh "great; chief, master, teacher;" Arabic rabba "was great," rabb "master").