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Hebrew verb · H7257

רָבַץ

rabatsraw-bats'

to stretch

30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: râbats

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7257is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 29
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7257

to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

The King James renders it: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.

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

rabats is rendered "to stretch". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:7If 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.”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-nine different ways.

The first use

If 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.”

Genesis 4:7רֹבֵ֑ץ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's thirty uses are in Isaiah.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and they will lie down4
  • they will lie down4
  • lying down3
  • it will lie down2
  • lies2
  • about to set1
  • and it lay down1
  • and it will lie down1
  • and you will lie down1
  • crouching1
  • he lies down1
  • he makes lie down me1

and 8 more, 30 uses in all

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.

רָבַבrababto multiplyUses21
רָבַעrabato squareUses12
רָבַעrabato mateUses3
רָבַךְrabakto stirUses3
רָבַבrababto multiply ten thousandUses2
רָבַדrabadto spreadUses1

All 30, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

29 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

  • וְרָבְצ֖וּ2
  • אַרְבִּיצֵ֔ם1
  • הָרֹבֵ֖ץ1
  • וְרָ֤בְצָה1
  • וְרָבְצ֨וּ1
  • וְרָבְצוּ־1
  • וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּ1
  • וַתִּרְבַּ֖ץ1
  • יַרְבִּיצֵ֑נִי1
  • יִרְבָּ֑ץ1
  • יִרְבָּ֖ץ1
  • יִרְבְּצ֣וּ1

and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqq3cp4Hc/Vqq3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular3HVqrfsa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HVqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun2HVqi3mp/Sn
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
  • Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
  • Hc/Vqq3fs1Hc/Vqq3fs
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi1cs/Sp3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms

Genesis

five uses
  • If 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.”

    Genesis 4:7

    • רֹבֵ֑ץrovetzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: crouching
  • He 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.

    Genesis 29:2

    • רֹבְצִ֣יםroetzimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: lying down
  • Judah 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?

    Genesis 49:9

    • רָבַ֧ץravatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he lies down
  • Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

    Genesis 49:14

    • רֹבֵ֖ץrovetzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: lying down
  • by 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.

    Genesis 49:25

    • רֹבֶ֣צֶתrovetzetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: lies

Exodus

one use
  • If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

    Exodus 23:5

    • רֹבֵץ֙rovetzverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: lying down

Numbers

one use
  • When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.

    Numbers 22:27

    • וַתִּרְבַּ֖ץvatirbatzHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it lay down

Deuteronomy

three uses
  • If 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.

    Deuteronomy 22:6

    • רֹבֶ֙צֶת֙rovetzetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: lying
  • The 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 heaven

    Deuteronomy 29:20

    • וְרָ֤בְצָהveravetzahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will lie down
  • Concerning 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,

    Deuteronomy 33:13

    • רֹבֶ֥צֶתrovetzetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: lies

Job

one use
  • You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

    Job 11:19

    • וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּveravatztaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will lie down

Psalms

two uses
  • He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.

    Psalms 23:2

    • יַרְבִּיצֵ֑נִיyarbitzeniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he makes lie down me
  • The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

    Psalms 104:22

    • יִרְבָּצֽוּן׃yirbatzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they lie down

Song of Solomon

one use
  • Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

    Song of Solomon 1:7

    • תַּרְבִּ֣יץtarbitzverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you make lie down

Isaiah

eight uses
  • The 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.

    Isaiah 11:6

    • יִרְבָּ֑ץyirbatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will lie down
  • The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

    Isaiah 11:7

    • יִרְבְּצ֣וּyirbetzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will lie down
  • She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

    Isaiah 13:20

    • יַרְבִּ֥צוּyarbitzuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will make lie down
  • But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

    Isaiah 13:21

    • וְרָבְצוּ־veravetzu-Hc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will lie down
  • Then 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.

    Isaiah 14:30

    • יִרְבָּ֑צוּyirbatzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will lie down
  • The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

    Isaiah 17:2

    • וְרָבְצ֖וּveravetzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will lie down
  • For 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.

    Isaiah 27:10

    • יִרְבָּ֖ץyirbatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will lie down
  • “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

    Isaiah 54:11

    • מַרְבִּ֤יץmarbitzverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to set

Jeremiah

one use
  • This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

    Jeremiah 33:12

    • מַרְבִּצִ֖יםmarbitzimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: make to lie down

Ezekiel

four uses
  • and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

    Ezekiel 19:2

    • רָבָ֑צָהravatzahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she lay down
  • Speak 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.’

    Ezekiel 29:3

    • הָרֹבֵ֖ץharovetzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which lies
  • I 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.

    Ezekiel 34:14

    • תִּרְבַּ֙צְנָה֙tirbatznahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will lie down
  • I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 34:15

    • אַרְבִּיצֵ֔םʾarbitzemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will make lie down them

Zephaniah

three uses
  • The 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.

    Zephaniah 2:7

    • יִרְבָּצ֔וּןyirbatzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will lie down
  • Herds 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.

    Zephaniah 2:14

    • וְרָבְצ֨וּveravetzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will lie down
  • The 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.”

    Zephaniah 3:13

    • וְרָבְצ֖וּveravetzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will lie down

The letters

Gematria 292· 1,102 mispar gadol

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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