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# רֶבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7252

**lie stretched out** — 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

lie stretched out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7252/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָבַע²: vb. lie stretched out, lie down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7252/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 139:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.3/#tree)

אָרְחִ֣י וְרִבְעִ֣י זֵרִ֑יתָ וְֽכָל־דְּרָכַ֥י הִסְכַּֽנְתָּה׃

*Word for word:* traveling my and my.lying down you.sift and all ways my you.know.intimately

*JPS 1917:* Thou measurest my going about and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7252.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7252/): 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).