[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A2-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ר](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/resh/)‎ / רֶבַע‎

# רֶבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7253

**fourth part** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fourth part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7253/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫בַע: n.m. fourth part four sides [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7253/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 1:8 1. fourth part. 2. pl. four sides;— ר׳ cstr., fourth part, of shekel 1 S 9:8, of hin Ex 29:40. in Ez, pl. sf. four sides (אַרְבַּעַת always preceding): רְבָעָיו Ez 43:16, רְבָעֶיהָ v 17; רִבְעֵיהֶם 1:8; 10:11, -הֶן 1:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sides (5); (the) fourth part (1); a fourth part (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.1.17/#tree)

עַל־אַרְבַּ֥עַת רִבְעֵיהֶ֖ן בְּלֶכְתָּ֣ם יֵלֵ֑כוּ לֹ֥א יִסַּ֖בּוּ בְּלֶכְתָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* on the.four sides their when moved they they.moved not they.turned when moved they

*JPS 1917:* When they went, they went toward their four sides; they turned not when they went.

[Ezekiel 43:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.43.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.43.16/#tree)

וְהָאֲרִיאֵ֗ל שְׁתֵּ֤ים עֶשְׂרֵה֙ אֹ֔רֶךְ בִּשְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה רֹ֑חַב רָב֕וּעַ אֶ֖ל אַרְבַּ֥עַת רְבָעָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and the.altar hearth \[is\].two.plus ten.\[cubits\] length by two.plus ten.\[cubits\] breadth \[it.is\].square to the.four sides its

*JPS 1917:* And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7253.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7253/): 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).