Jastrow: רְבוּתָא

רְבוּתָא, רְבוּ f. (רְבֵי I) 1) greatness, dignity, office; anointment. Targ. II Esth. VI, 10. Targ. Is. IX, 6. Targ. Deut. XXXII, 3 (Y. II רַבּוּ). Targ. Zech. IX, 6 (h. text גאון). Targ. Num. XVIII, 8 (h. text מָשְׁחָה). Targ. Ps. CXLV, 3 (some ed. רַבּוּ׳). Ib. CL, 2, v. רַבָּנוּתָא; a. fr.—Targ. Esth. II, 9, v. סַמְתּוֹרָא.—Gitt. 68ᵇ מאי רְבוּתַיְיכוּ מינן wherein are you our superiors?; אחוי לך רְבוּתָאִי I shall show thee my superiority. Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ bot. רבו היא it was an honor (to be brought into the king’s palace); a. e. —2) a great thing, something remarkable. Targ. Esth. II, 21.—Snh. 106ᵇ, v. בַּעְיָא. Ḥag. 24ᵃ היינו רְבוּתֵיה דנגובה (Rashi רבותא) this is the remarkable thing about ‘the dry hand’ (that is the reason for the insertion of the word נגובה, to show that even the touch of a dry hand makes unclean); מאי ר׳ דנגובה what it there remarkable in ‘the dry hand’? B. Bath. 36ᵇ; Yeb. 45ᵃ ר׳ למחשב גברי וכ׳ is it a great thing to quote authorities? (I can do the same:) here are Rab &c.; a. e.—V. רְבִיתָא II, III, a. רֵיבוּתָא.