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Lexicon :: Strong's H7257 - rāḇaṣ

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רָבַץ
Transliteration
rāḇaṣ
Pronunciation
raw-bats'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2109

Strong’s Definitions

רָבַץ râbats, raw-bats'; a primitive root; to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed:—crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H7257 in the following manner: lay down (15x), lay (9x), couch beneath (1x), couched (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H7257 in the following manner: lay down (15x), lay (9x), couch beneath (1x), couched (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out

    1. (Qal) to lie down, lie

    2. (Hiphil) to cause to lie down

      1. laying (stones)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָבַץ râbats, raw-bats'; a primitive root; to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed:—crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
STRONGS H7257: Abbreviations
† רָבַץ verb stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Assyrian rabâṣu, lie, dwell; rubṣu (in word-lists), stall, also womb (compare II. רבע above); Arabic bdb091802 lie down, on the breast, stretch oneself out, bdb091803 Sabean מרבצֿן CISiv. no. 5, 2; Targum רְבַע lie stretched out, Syriac bdb091804, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic bdb091805 recline at meals, SchwIdioticon 87); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ר׳ Genesis 49:9, 3rd person feminine singular consecutive וְרָֽבְצָה Deuteronomy 29:19, רָבָ֑צָה Ezekiel 19:2, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִרְבָּ֑ץ Isaiah 11:6; Isaiah 27:10; 3rd person feminine singular וַתִּרְבַּץ Numbers 22:27; 3rd person masculine plural יִרְבְּצוּ Numbers 11:7 יִרְבָּ֑צוּ Numbers 14:30 יִרְבָּצ֑וּן Zephaniah 2:7; Psalm 104:22; 3rd person feminine plural תִּרְבַּצְנָה Ezekiel 34:14; Participle רֹבֵץ Exodus 23:5 + 3 times; feminine רֹבֶ֫צֶת Genesis 49:25 + 2 times; masculine plural רֹבְצֹים Genesis 29:2; — lie down, lie: of domestic animals, ass Exodus 23:5 (E; under heavy burden), Numbers 22:27 (Jeremiah; in obstructed path), Genesis 49:14 (at ease; poetic, in simile); sheep, in repose, Genesis 29:2 (J), Isaiah 17:2; Zephaniah 2:14; figurative of people Ezekiel 34:14; calf in repose Isaiah 27:10: of wild beasts, lion, in lair, Genesis 49:9 (poem in J; figurative), Psalm 104:22; = make lair, abode Ezekiel 19:2 (figurative), so of צִיִּים Isaiah 13:21, תַּנֵין Ezekiel 29:3 (figurative); leopard (with kid) Isaiah 11:6, compare Isaiah 11:7; = brood, of mother-bird Deuteronomy 22:6 (עַלהָֿאֶפְרֹחִים); of man, in repose Isaiah 14:30; Job 11:19, compare Zephaniah 2:7; Zephaniah 3:13 (figurative of flock perhaps implied, compare Ezekiel 34:14 above); of the deep, רֹבֶצֶת תָּ֑חַת Genesis 49:25; Deuteronomy 33:13; figurative of curse Deuteronomy 29:19 (ב person); of sin, רֹבֵץ חַטָּאת לַפֶּתַח Genesis 4:7 at the door sin makes its lair.
Hiph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix יַרְבִּיצֵנִי Psalm 23:2, 2nd person masculine singular תַּרְבִּיץ Songs 1:7, etc.; Participle מַרְבִּיץ Isaiah 54: plural מַרְבִּצִים Jeremiah 33:12; — cause to lie down, or lie, accusative of flock (for repose) Jeremiah 33:12, also (figurative) Psalm 23:2; Ezekiel 34:15; accusative of flock omitted Isaiah 13:10; Songs 1:7; of laying stones Isaiah 54:
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:7; 29:2; 29:2; 49:9; 49:9; 49:14; 49:25; 49:25

Exodus

23:5; 23:5

Numbers

11:7; 14:30; 22:27; 22:27

Deuteronomy

22:6; 29:19; 29:19; 33:13

Job

11:19

Psalms

23:2; 23:2; 104:22; 104:22

Song of Songs

1:7; 1:7

Isaiah

11:6; 11:6; 11:7; 13:10; 13:21; 14:30; 17:2; 27:10; 27:10; 54; 54

Jeremiah

33:12; 33:12

Ezekiel

19:2; 19:2; 29:3; 34:14; 34:14; 34:14; 34:15

Zephaniah

2:7; 2:7; 2:14; 3:13

H7257

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Strong's Number H7257 matches the Hebrew רָבַץ (rāḇaṣ),
which occurs 30 times in 30 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:7 - If thou doest well, will not thy countenance look up with confidence? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the fields, and behold there, three flocks of sheep were lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a great stone was at the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 - Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:14 - Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two hurdles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - From the God of thy father, and he will help thee; And from the Almighty, and he will bless thee -- With blessings of heaven from above, With blessings of the deep that lieth under, With blessings of the breast and of the womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving it to him: thou shalt certainly loosen it with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:27 - And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah, and lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with his staff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree, or upon the ground, with young or with eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13 - And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land! By the precious things of the heavens, By the dew, and by the deep that lieth beneath,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:19 - Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:2 - He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside still waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:22 - The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their dens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 - Tell me, thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest thy flock, Where thou makest it to rest at noon; For why should I be as one veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:7 - And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:20 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:21 - But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; but I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:2 - The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11 - Thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, not comforted! Behold, I will set thy stones in antimony, and lay thy foundations with sapphires;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 - Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In this place which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, there shall again be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2 - and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which saith, My river is mine own, and I made it for myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:14 - I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:15 - I will myself feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:7 - And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for Jehovah their God shall visit them, and turn again their captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the crowd of beasts; both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge in the chapiters thereof; a voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be on the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:13 - The remnant of Israel shall not work unrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but *they* shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
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