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# רָבַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7234

**be-spread** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be-spread [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7234/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָבַד: vb. be-spread, deck [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7234/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be-spread, deck (cf. Arabic رَبَدَ v. shew patches of colour, become clouded (of sky); NH רֹבֶד pavement, paved terrace, 𝔗 רוֹבֵדָא pavement);— Pf. 1 s. מַרְבַדִּים רָבַדְתִּי עַרְשִׂי Pr 7:16 with spreads (coverlets) have I bespread my couch; read also Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּרְבְּדוּ לְשָׁאוּל 1 S 9:25 𝔅 Th We Dr al. (for MT וַיְדַבֵּר עִם שׁ׳), obj. om.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have spread (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.16/#tree)

מַ֭רְבַדִּים רָבַ֣דְתִּי עַרְשִׂ֑י חֲ֝טֻב֗וֹת אֵט֥וּן מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* coverings I.have.spread couch my colored.fabrics linen of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7234.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7234/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).