Definitions for Rabbi

• Definition
• Anagrams (43)

Rabbi rab·bi

Spelling: [rab-ahy]

IPA: /ˈræb aɪ/

Rabbi is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Rabbi (abbir).

Definitions for Rabbi

noun

1. the chief religious official of a synagogue, trained usually in a theological seminary and duly ordained, who delivers the sermon at a religious service and performs ritualistic, pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to his or her capacity as a spiritual leader of Judaism and the Jewish community. Compare cantor (def 2).
2. a title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher.
3. a Jewish scholar qualified to rule on questions of Jewish law.
4. any of the Jewish scholars of the 1st to 6th centuries a.d. who contributed to the writing, editing, or compiling of the Talmud.
5. Slang. a personal patron or adviser, as in business.
6. rabat1 .

Origin of Rabbi

1250-1300; Middle English rabi (Old French rab(b)i) Late Latin rabbī Greek rhabbí Hebrew rabbī my master (rabh master + -ī my)

Examples for Rabbi

If confirmed, rabbi Saperstein will have more than his share of work cut out for him.

Now if he had problems, and felt he was abused he had me or the rabbi in his Shul to discuss it with.

She was too innocent to see the trick, but the rabbi failed.

And let the sheikh and the priest and the rabbi embrace on that very Stump and make up.

His office let rabbi Yehuda Kolko get away without jail time or registering as a sex offender.

Then, placing his foot upon the rabbi's neck, he cried: "Andate!"

He remembered one day when rabbi Bodenheimer came outside during recess.

No one came near them—neither Moor nor Jew, neither rabbi nor elder.

Freundel is also rabbi of the prominent Kesher Israel synagogue in Washington.

Give her one child, and it shall be Thine—if it is a son, to be a rabbi in Thy synagogues.