Word Study · Strong's H7257 · Hebrew
רָבַץ
rabats
raw-bats'
Strong's 1890 spelling: râbats
“to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Rendered in the KJV as
crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
- 30occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 11 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 29inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 30 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 29
- וְרָבְצ֖וּ2
- אַרְבִּיצֵ֔ם1
- הָרֹבֵ֖ץ1
- וְרָ֤בְצָה1
- וְרָבְצ֨וּ1
- וְרָבְצוּ־1
- וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּ1
- וַתִּרְבַּ֖ץ1
- יַרְבִּיצֵ֑נִי1
- יִרְבָּ֑ץ1
- יִרְבָּ֖ץ1
- יִרְבְּצ֣וּ1
and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 22
- and they will lie down4
- they will lie down3
- [which] lies2
- it will lie down2
- lying down2
- [am] about to set1
- [is] crouching1
- [is] lying1
- [were] lying down1
- [who] make to lie down1
- and it lay down1
- and it will lie down1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 20
- Hc/Vqq3cp4
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular3
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular3
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural2
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun2
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular2
- Hc/Vqq2ms1
- Hc/Vqq3fs1
- Hc/Vqw3fs1
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular1
- verb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1
- verb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 2nd person masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- Hc/Vqq3cp · 4
- HVqrfsa · 3
- HVqrmsa · 3
- HVqi3mp · 2
- HVqi3mp/Sn · 2
- HVqi3ms · 2
- Hc/Vqq2ms · 1
- Hc/Vqq3fs · 1
- Hc/Vqw3fs · 1
- HTd/Vqrmsa · 1
- HVhi1cs/Sp3mp · 1
- HVhi2ms · 1
All 30, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Isaiah8 of 30 · 27%
- Genesis5 of 30 · 17%
- Ezekiel4 of 30 · 13%
- Deuteronomy3 of 30 · 10%
- Zephaniah3 of 30 · 10%
Isaiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Genesis5 occurrences
- Genesis 4:7רֹבֵ֑ץrovetzverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singularIf you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”here: [is] crouching
- Genesis 29:2רֹבְצִ֣יםroetzimverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine pluralHe looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.here: [were] lying down
- Genesis 49:9רָבַ֧ץravatzverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singularJudah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?here: he lies down
- Genesis 49:14רֹבֵ֖ץrovetzverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singularIssachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.here: lying down
- Genesis 49:25רֹבֶ֣צֶתrovetzetverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularby the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.here: [which] lies
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 22:6רֹבֶ֙צֶת֙rovetzetverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularIf you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.here: [is] lying
- Deuteronomy 29:20וְרָ֤בְצָהveravetzahHc/Vqq3fsThe LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heavenhere: and it will lie down
- Deuteronomy 33:13רֹבֶ֥צֶתrovetzetverb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularConcerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,here: [which] lies
Job1 occurrence
Psalms2 occurrences
- Psalms 23:2יַרְבִּיצֵ֑נִיyarbitzeniverb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singularHe makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.here: he makes lie down me
- Psalms 104:22יִרְבָּצֽוּן׃yirbatzunverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nunThe sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.here: they lie down !
Isaiah8 occurrences
- Isaiah 11:6יִרְבָּ֑ץyirbatzverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singularThe wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.here: it will lie down
- Isaiah 11:7יִרְבְּצ֣וּyirbetzuverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine pluralThe cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.here: they will lie down
- Isaiah 13:20יַרְבִּ֥צוּyarbitzuverb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine pluralShe will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.here: they will make lie down
- Isaiah 13:21וְרָבְצוּ־veravetzu-Hc/Vqq3cpBut desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.here: and they will lie down
- Isaiah 14:30יִרְבָּ֑צוּyirbatzuverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine pluralThen the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.here: they will lie down
- Isaiah 17:2וְרָבְצ֖וּveravetzuHc/Vqq3cpThe cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.here: and they will lie down
- Isaiah 27:10יִרְבָּ֖ץyirbatzverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singularFor the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.here: it will lie down
- Isaiah 54:11מַרְבִּ֤יץmarbitzverb · causative (hiphil), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.here: [am] about to set
Ezekiel4 occurrences
- Ezekiel 19:2רָבָ֑צָהravatzahverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singularand say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.here: she lay down
- Ezekiel 29:3הָרֹבֵ֖ץharovetzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singularSpeak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’here: which lies
- Ezekiel 34:14תִּרְבַּ֙צְנָה֙tirbatznahverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine pluralI will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.here: they will lie down
- Ezekiel 34:15אַרְבִּיצֵ֔םʾarbitzemverb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluralI will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.here: I will make lie down them
Zephaniah3 occurrences
- Zephaniah 2:7יִרְבָּצ֔וּןyirbatzunverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nunThe coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.here: they will lie down !
- Zephaniah 2:14וְרָבְצ֨וּveravetzuHc/Vqq3cpHerds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.here: and they will lie down
- Zephaniah 3:13וְרָבְצ֖וּveravetzuHc/Vqq3cpThe remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”here: and they will lie down