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# רָבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7251

**squared** — used 12 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

squared [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7251/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָבַע: vb.denom. squared, square [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7251/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom., only Pt. pass. squared, square;— Pt. pass. רָבוּעַ square, of altar Ex 27:1; 30:2; 37:25; 38:1, cf. Ez 43:16; breastplate 30:2; 39:9; pl. רְבֻעִים, of doorways, etc. \[on text v. Kit Benz\] 1 K 7:5; fs. רְבֻעָה as subst. = a square Ez 41:21 (acc. Co Toy, om. מְזוּזַה, and joining ר׳ to v 20; Krae reads מְזוּזֹת רְבֻעֹת, cf. 1 K 6:33, רְבִיעִי 2). Pt. square, מְרֻבַּע Ez 45:2, of piece of land; fs. מְרֻבָּ֑עַת 40:47, of court; fpl. מְרֻבָּעוֹת 1 K 7:31 (opp. עֲגֻלּוֹת), of borders of bases (cf. Sab. רבעתם, a kind of square building, Sab-Denkm 31).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: square (6); \[were\] square (2); a square (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.16/#tree)

רָב֥וּעַ יִֽהְיֶ֖ה כָּפ֑וּל זֶ֥רֶת אָרְכּ֖וֹ וְזֶ֥רֶת רָחְבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* square it.will.be folded.double \[will.be\].a.span length its and \[will.be\].a.span breadth its

*JPS 1917:* Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.

[Ezekiel 41:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.21/#tree)

הַֽהֵיכָ֖ל מְזוּזַ֣ת רְבֻעָ֑ה וּפְנֵ֣י הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ הַמַּרְאֶ֖ה כַּמַּרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* the temple a.doorpost of.a.square and the.front of the.holy.place the appearance \[was\].like the appearance

*JPS 1917:* As for the temple, the jambs were squared; and the face of the sanctuary had an appearance such as is the appearance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7251.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7251/): 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).