רָבַד
râbad · H7234 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cover, to deck
Causative action by which humans cover a bed or couch with a covering to prepare it for use
ExamplesProverbs 7:16 “I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֶרֶשׂbed 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- יַצַע yatsaʻ · H3331 · to spread out (as a bed), to lie down on sackcloth and ashes
- יָצַע denotes the action of spreading out or making a bed/couch, semantically very close to רָבַד in the sense of decking or covering with fabric/material. Both verbs describe the act of furnishing or covering a surface.
In the other Testament 1 word
- στρώννυμι strṓnnymi · G4766 · to spread, to spread out, to furnish
- The verb στρωννύω is the primary Greek equivalent for spreading or decking with coverings, corresponding to the action denoted by Hebrew רָבַד. This is a standard lexical equivalent in biblical translation contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cover002003001005
- The word means to deck or spread coverings, illustrated by the seductress' boast, "I have spread my couch with coverings, with colored linens of Egypt" (Proverbs 7:16).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7234. rabad II. [רָבַד] verb be-spread, deck (compare Arabic see shew patches of colour,…
II. [רָבַד] verb be-spread, deck (compare Arabic see shew patches of colour, become clouded (of sky); Late Hebrew רֹבֶד pavement, paved terrace, רוֺבֵדָא ᵑ7 pavement); —
Qal Perfect1singular עַרְשִׂי רָבֵדְתִּי מַרְבֵרִּים Pro 7:16 with spreads (coverlets) have I be spread my couch; read also Imperfect3masculine singular לְשָׁאוּל וַיִרְבְּדוּ 1Sa 9:25 ᵐ5 Th We Dr and others (for וַיְדַבֵּר ᵑ0) שׁ ׳עִם, object omitted.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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