Râbats — H7257

Definition

verb

to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

1. to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out
1. (Qal) to lie down, lie
2. (Hiphil) to cause to lie down
1. laying (stones)

Usually translated as

lie, lay, make a fold, make to rest, crouch, fall down, sit

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• anápausis (G372)
• anapaúō (G373)
• bóskō (G1006)
• gínomai (G1096)
• hetoimázō (G2090)
• échō (G2192)
• hēsycházō (G2270)
• thálpō (G2282)
• katalýō (G2647)
• kataskēnóō (G2681)
• koimáō (G2837)
• kolláō (G2853)
• píptō (G4098)
• synanapaúomai (G4875)

Occurrences

Râbats occurs 30 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (5), Exodus (1), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (3), Job (1), Psalms (2), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (8), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (4), Zephaniah (3)

• Genesis 4:7 — If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth (רֹבֵ֑ץ) at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
• Genesis 29:2 — And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying (רֹבְצִ֣ים) by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
• Genesis 49:9 — Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched (רָבַ֧ץ) as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
• Genesis 49:14 — Issachar is a strong ass couching down (רֹבֵ֖ץ) between two burdens:
• 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 (רֹבֶ֣צֶת) under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
• Exodus 23:5 — If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying (רֹבֵץ֙) under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
• Numbers 22:27 — And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down (וַתִּרְבַּ֖ץ) under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
• Deuteronomy 22:6 — If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting (רֹבֶ֙צֶת֙) upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
• 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 shall lie (וְרָ֤בְצָה) upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
• 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 (רֹבֶ֥צֶת) beneath,
• Job 11:19 — Also thou shalt lie down (וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּ), and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
• Psalms 23:2 — He maketh me to lie down (יַרְבִּיצֵ֑נִי) in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
• Psalms 104:22 — The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down (יִרְבָּצֽוּן) in their dens.
• Song of Songs 1:7 — Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest (תַּרְבִּ֣יץ) at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
• Isaiah 11:6 — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down (יִרְבָּ֑ץ) with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
• Isaiah 11:7 — And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down (יִרְבְּצ֣וּ) together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
• 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 shepherds make their fold (יַרְבִּ֥צוּ) there.
• Isaiah 13:21 — But wild beasts of the desert shall lie (וְרָבְצוּ) there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
• Isaiah 14:30 — And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down (יִרְבָּ֑צוּ) in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
• Isaiah 17:2 — The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down (וְרָבְצ֖וּ), and none shall make them afraid.
• 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 (יִרְבָּ֖ץ), and consume the branches thereof.
• Isaiah 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay (מַרְבִּ֤יץ) thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
• Jeremiah 33:12 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down (מַרְבִּצִ֖ים).
• Ezekiel 19:2 — And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down (רָבָ֑צָה) among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
• 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 (הָרֹבֵ֖ץ) in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
• Ezekiel 34:14 — I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie (תִּרְבַּ֙צְנָה֙) in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
• Ezekiel 34:15 — I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down (אַרְבִּיצֵ֔ם), saith the Lord GOD.
• 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 (יִרְבָּצ֔וּן) in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
• Zephaniah 2:14 — And flocks shall lie down (וְרָבְצ֨וּ) in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
• 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 (וְרָבְצ֖וּ), and none shall make them afraid.