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 39Old Testament books
- 29spellings
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.
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.
The words it stands beside
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.”
- 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.
- 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?
- רָבַ֧ץravatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he lies down
Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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,
- רֹבֶ֥צֶתrovetzetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: lies
Job
one use
You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.
- וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּveravatztaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will lie down
Psalms
two uses
He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
