רָבַץ ravats
Hebrew word for “to stretch” · Strong’s H7257 · used 30 times in 30 verses
Meaning
1) to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out; 1a) (Qal) to lie down, lie; 1b)(Hiphil) to cause to lie down; 1b1) laying (stones)
How it is translated
Glosses given for ravats in context, with how often each is used:
- will lie down 11
- lying down 3
- which lies 3
- lay down 2
- will make lie down 2
- crouching 1
- lies down 1
- lying 1
- makes lie down 1
- lie down ! 1
- will you make them lie down 1
- about to set 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 8 | 0.5 | |
| Genesis | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Deuteronomy | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Zephaniah | 3 | 3.9 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Numbers | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Song of Solomon | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 |
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 49 (3), Isaiah 11 (2), Isaiah 13 (2), Ezekiel 34 (2), Zephaniah 2 (2), Genesis 4 (1), Genesis 29 (1), Exodus 23 (1), Numbers 22 (1), Deuteronomy 22 (1)
Forms
- רבץ 4
- ורבצו 4
- רבצת 3
- ירבצו 3
- ירבצון 2
- ירבץ 2
- רבצים 1
- ותרבץ 1
- ורבצה 1
- ורבצת 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with ravats more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- רָעָה raah “to pasture” 10
- עֵדֶר eder “flock” 4
- תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 5
- נָוֶה naveh “pasture” 3
- חָרַד charad “to tremble” 3
- שְׁאֵרִית sheerit “remnant” 3
- אַרְיֵה aryeh “lion” 3
- שָׁם sham “there” 5
- גּוּר gur “whelp” 2
- לָבִיא lavi “lion” 2
- עָזַב azav “to leave” 3
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 4
Key verses
The verses using ravats that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 4:7 — If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over…
- Genesis 49:25 — Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth…
- Deuteronomy 29:20 — The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book…
- Deuteronomy 33:13 — And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
- Song of Solomon 1:7 — Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the…
- Isaiah 11:6 — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little…
- Isaiah 13:20 — It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the…
- Isaiah 27:10 — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and…
- Isaiah 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- Ezekiel 29:3 — Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath…
- Zephaniah 2:7 — And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the…
- Zephaniah 3:13 — The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and…
See all 30 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.