Hebrew verb · H7251
רָבַע
rabaraw-bah'
to square
12 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 H7251is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7251
to be quadrate
The King James renders it: (four-) square(-d).
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 square". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 27:1“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
Exodus 27:1רָב֤וּעַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- square10
- a square2
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 mate | Uses3 |
| 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 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- מְרֻבָּ֣ע1
- מְרֻבָּע֖וֹת1
- מְרֻבָּ֑עַת1
- רָב֤וּעַ1
- רָב֥וּעַ1
- רָב֣וּעַ1
- רָב֗וּעַ1
- רָב֔וּעַ1
- רָב֧וּעַ1
- רָב֕וּעַ1
- רְבֻעָ֑ה1
- רְבֻעִ֣ים1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular7HVqsmsa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine plural1HVPsfpa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular1HVPsfsa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HVPsmsa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular1HVqsfsa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural1HVqsmpa
Exodus
six uses
“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- רָב֤וּעַravua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- רָב֥וּעַravua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.
- רָב֣וּעַravua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.
- רָב֗וּעַravua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- רָב֔וּעַravua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
It was square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- רָב֧וּעַravua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
1 Kings
two uses
All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.
- רְבֻעִ֣יםrevuimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: square
The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.
- מְרֻבָּע֖וֹתmerubaotverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: square
Ezekiel
four uses
Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
- מְרֻבָּ֑עַתmerubaatverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: a square
The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.
- רְבֻעָ֑הrevuahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: a square
The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
- רָב֕וּעַravua'verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
- מְרֻבָּ֣עmeruba'verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: square
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.