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# רָבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7250

**lie stretched out** — used 3 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

lie stretched out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7250/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָבַע²: vb. lie stretched out, lie down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7250/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lie stretched out, lie down (Aramaic form of רָבַץ (q.v.); NH רבע usually of copulation, chiefly unnatural; yet cf. also Sab. רבע abide, encamp, settle, DHMZMG xxix (1875), 593, Arabic رَبَعَ abide, dwell)— only Inf.: sf. רִבְעִי ψ 139:3 my lying down (for repose, opp. אָרְחִי); elsewhere (H) for copulation (woman with beast) לְרִבְעָה אֹתָהּ Lv 20:16, but read אִתָּהּ (sf. of beast) Dr-Wh KöSynt. 226 e, cf. Bae Berthol (and Dr 2 S 13:14); לְרִבְעָהּ 18:23, read לְרִבְעָה (compl. om.; v. id.). Impf. 2 ms. בְּהֶמְתְּךָ לֹא תַרְבִּיעַ כִּלְאַיִם Lv 19:19 (H) thy cattle thou shalt not cause to (let) lie down (i.e. breed) in two kinds.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lie (1); lie with (1); you will make lie (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 19:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.19/#tree)

אֶֽת־חֻקֹּתַי֮ תִּשְׁמֹרוּ֒ בְּהֶמְתְּךָ֙ לֹא־תַרְבִּ֣יעַ כִּלְאַ֔יִם שָׂדְךָ֖ לֹא־תִזְרַ֣ע כִּלְאָ֑יִם וּבֶ֤גֶד כִּלְאַ֙יִם֙ שַֽׁעַטְנֵ֔ז לֹ֥א יַעֲלֶ֖ה עָלֶֽיךָ׃פ

*Word for word:* (et) statutes my you.will.keep livestock your not you.will.make.lie two.kinds field your not you.will.sow two.kinds and clothing two.kinds mixed.stuff not it.will.go.up on you

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall keep My statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind; thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed; neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.

[Leviticus 18:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.23/#tree)

וּבְכָל־בְּהֵמָ֛ה לֹא־תִתֵּ֥ן שְׁכָבְתְּךָ֖ לְטָמְאָה־בָ֑הּ וְאִשָּׁ֗ה לֹֽא־תַעֲמֹ֞ד לִפְנֵ֧י בְהֵמָ֛ה לְרִבְעָ֖הּ תֶּ֥בֶל הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and in any animal not you.will.give copulation your to be.unclean by it and a.woman not she.will.stand before an.animal to lie with.it \[is\].confusion it

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto; it is perversion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7250.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7250/): 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).