רֶבַע
rebaʻ · H7253 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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fourth
State in which an entity is one out of four equal parts
ExamplesExodus 29:40 and there shall be a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with one lamb.
1 Samuel 9:8 The servant answered Saul again and said, “Look, I have in my hand a fourth of a shekel of silver; I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us our way.”
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side
One side of a square object
ExamplesEzekiel 1:8 Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
Ezekiel 1:17 Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.
Ezekiel 10:11 When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- הֶםtheir 2
- הִיןhin 1
- הֵןin 1
- שֶׁקֶלshekel 1
- הוּhis 1
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַרְבַּעfour 5
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֶׁמֶןoil 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָצָאto find 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵלto, toward 5
- עַלon, upon, over, against 3
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- μέρος méros · G3313 · part, aspect, feature
- Greek μέρος (méros, G3313) serves as the standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew רֶבַע (rebaʻ, H7253) in LXX contexts where the Hebrew denotes a spatial division or portion (fourth part, side), as both terms fundamentally denote divisions/parts of a whole, with μέρος being the broader Greek term for 'part' or 'portion' that naturally renders the Hebrew's more specific 'fourth part' or 'side' sense in translation.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The word means a fourth part or side, directly illustrated by "a fourth of a hin" of oil and wine (Exodus 29:40), "a fourth of a shekel of silver" (1 Samuel 9:8), and the four sides or directions of the living creatures' wings (Ezekiel 1:8, 17; 10:11).
- Names of People003001007
- This domain is shared with the identically spelled personal name Reba (רֶבַע (Rebaʻ, H7254)); it is not independently illustrated by this word's own sampled citations, which all concern fractional quantity or spatial sides.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7253. reba I. רֶ֫בַע noun masculineEze 1:8 1 fourth part. 2 plural four sides; — 1 ׳ר…
I. רֶ֫בַע noun masculineEze 1:8
1 fourth part.
2 plural four sides; —
1 ׳ר construct, fourth part, of shekel 1Sa 9:8, of hin Exo 29:40.
2 in Ezekiel, plural suffix four sides (אַרְבַּעַת always preceding): רְבָעָיו Eze 43:16, רְבָעֶיהָ Eze 43:17; רִבְעֵיהֶם Eze 1:8; Eze 10:11, הֶן- Eze 1:17.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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
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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