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title: רֶבַע — lie stretched out · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֶבַע (7252), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: lie stretched out. BDB 1906: vb. lie stretched out, lie down. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֶבַע

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«רֶבַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lie stretched out** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7252 · **BDB:** רָבַע²

### Glosses

my.lying (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. lie stretched out, lie down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7252/#m2)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רֶבַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7252/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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