Râbaʻ — H7251

Definition

verb

to be quadrate

1. to square, be squared
1. (Qal) square (participle)
2. (Pual) square (participle)

Usually translated as

foursquare, square, squared

Origin

a primitive root (rather identical with H7250 through the idea of sprawling 'at all fours' (or possibly the reverse is the order of deriv.); compare H702); properly, to be four (sided); used only as denominative of H7253

• Râbaʻ (H7250)
• ʼarbaʻ (H702)
• Rebaʻ (H7253)

Occurrences

Râbaʻ occurs 12 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (6), 1 Kings (2), Ezekiel (4)

• Exodus 27:1 — And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare (רָב֤וּעַ): and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
• Exodus 28:16 — Foursquare (רָב֥וּעַ) it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
• Exodus 30:2 — A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare (רָב֣וּעַ) shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
• Exodus 37:25 — And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare (רָב֗וּעַ); and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
• Exodus 38:1 — And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare (רָב֔וּעַ); and three cubits the height thereof.
• Exodus 39:9 — It was foursquare (רָב֧וּעַ); they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
• 1 Kings 7:5 — And all the doors and posts were square (רְבֻעִ֣ים), with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
• 1 Kings 7:31 — And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare (מְרֻבָּע֖וֹת), not round.
• Ezekiel 40:47 — So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare (מְרֻבָּ֑עַת); and the altar that was before the house.
• Ezekiel 41:21 — The posts of the temple were squared (רְבֻעָ֑ה), and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
• Ezekiel 43:16 — And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square (רָב֕וּעַ) in the four squares thereof.
• Ezekiel 45:2 — Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square (מְרֻבָּ֣ע) round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.