רָבַץ
râbats · raw-bats'
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
- to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal)
- be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the house, what is within › to pursue the straight path
The head, the highest of the house, what is within that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָבַץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall lie down4 · 13%
- that lieth2 · 7%
- shall lie2 · 7%
- lieth1 · 3%
- lying1 · 3%
- he couched1 · 3%
- couching down1 · 3%
- thee lying1 · 3%
- she fell down1 · 3%
- sitting1 · 3%
- that coucheth beneath1 · 3%
- also thou shalt lie down1 · 3%
- he maketh me to lie down1 · 3%
- and lay them down1 · 3%
- thou makest thy flock to rest1 · 3%
- make their fold1 · 3%
- which shall lie down1 · 3%
- and there shall he lie down1 · 3%
- behold, i will lay1 · 3%
- to lie down1 · 3%
- she lay down1 · 3%
- be: there shall they lie1 · 3%
- and i will cause them to lie down1 · 3%
- shall they lie down1 · 3%
- and lie down1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.