רָבַע
râbaʻ · H7250 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to mate, to have intercourse
Literally: to lie down; hence: actions by which humans assume a horizontal position to order to copulate with an animal
ExamplesLeviticus 18:23 ‘Also you shall not have sexual intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
Leviticus 19:19 ‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not cross-breed two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment of two kinds of material mixed together.
Leviticus 20:16 ‘If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they must be put to death. They have brought their own deaths upon themselves.
How it’s used In 4 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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בְּהֵמָהanimal, livestock 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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
- שָׁכַב shâkab · H7901 · to lie, to lie down, to lay down
- Both words denote lying down in a sexual context, Hebrew words for the act of mating or sexual intercourse; they are distinct Hebrew roots with overlapping sense in this area.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Stance002001001061
- This domain is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which concern sexual union rather than bodily posture generally.
- Copulate002003001004
- The word means to mate or have intercourse, directly illustrated by the prohibitions against sexual intercourse with an animal (Leviticus 18:23, 20:16).
- Shape002001001052
- This domain is shared with the homograph meaning "square" (רָבַע (râbaʻ, H7251)); it is not independently illustrated by this word's own sampled citations, which concern mating rather than shape.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7250. raba [רָבַע] verb lie stretched out, lie down (Aramaic form of רָבַץ (q. v.); Late…
[רָבַע] verb lie stretched out, lie down (Aramaic form of רָבַץ (q. v.); Late Hebrew רבע usually of copulation, chiefly unnatural; yet compare also Sabean רבע abide, encamp, settle, DHMZMG xxix (1875), 593, Arabic abide, dwell) —
Qal only Infinitive: suffix רִבְעִי Psa 139:3 my lying down (for repose, opposed to אָרְחִי); elsewhere (H) for copulation (woman with beast) אֹתָהּ לְרִבְעָה Lev 20:16, but read אִתָּהּ (suffix of beast) Dr-Wh KöSynt. 226 e, compare Bae Berthol (and Dr2Sa 13:14); לְרִבְעָהּ 2Sa 18:23, read לְרִבְעָה (compl. omitted; see id.).
Hiph`il Imperfect2masculine singular כִּלְאַיִם תַרְבִּיעַ לֹא בְּהֶמְתְּךָ Lev 19:19 (H) thy cattle thou shalt not cause to (let) lie down (i.e. breed) in two kinds.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
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