Hebrew verb · H7250
רָבַע
rabaraw-bah'
to mate
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râbaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7250is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7250
to squat or lie out flat, i.e. (specifically) in copulation
The King James renders it: let gender, lie down.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
raba is rendered "to mate". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 18:23You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
Leviticus 18:23לְרִבְעָ֖הּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to stretch out with1
- to stretch out with it1
- you will make lie1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רָבַץ | rabats | to stretch | Uses30 |
| רָבַב | rabab | to multiply | Uses21 |
| רָבַע | raba | to square | Uses12 |
| רָבַךְ | rabak | to stir | Uses3 |
| רָבַב | rabab | to multiply ten thousand | Uses2 |
| רָבַד | rabad | to spread | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לְרִבְעָ֣ה1
- לְרִבְעָ֖הּ1
- תַרְבִּ֣יעַ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HR/Vqcc/Sp3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
Leviticus
three uses
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
- לְרִבְעָ֖הּlerivahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to stretch out with it
You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
- תַרְבִּ֣יעַtarbia'verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will make lie
If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- לְרִבְעָ֣הlerivahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to stretch out with
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.