רֵבֶץ
rêbets · H7258 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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resting place
Place where animals lie down to rest
ExamplesProverbs 24:15 Do not lie in ambush, you wicked person, against the home of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;
Isaiah 35:7 The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes.
Isaiah 65:10 “Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks, And the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, For My people who seek Me.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- בָּקָרcattle, oxen 1
- הוּhis 1
- הּher 1
- הֶםtheir 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָוֶהpasture, habitation 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- שָׁדַדto devastate, to destroy 1
- שָׁכַחto forget 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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 2 words
- מְנוּחָה mᵉnûwchâh · H4496 · rest, peace of mind, peace
- מָנוֹחַ denotes a resting place or place of rest, closely parallel to רֵבֶץ as a location where one rests, though מָנוֹחַ derives from נוּחַ (to rest) rather than רָבַץ (to lie down) and may emphasize cessation of motion more than the posture of lying.
- מִשְׁכָּב mishkâb · H4904 · rest, lying (with) > having sex with
- מִשְׁכָּב denotes a bed or place where one lies down, semantically parallel to רֵבֶץ as a lying place, though מִשְׁכָּב derives from שָׁכַב (to lie down) and often emphasizes the bed itself rather than the act or place of crouching/resting.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life
- κοίτη denotes a bed or place of lying down, serving as a natural Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew רֵבֶץ as a resting place or place where one lies down.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The word means a resting place, directly illustrated by the righteous man's "resting place" (Proverbs 24:15), the jackals' haunt becoming a "resting place" for reeds and rushes (Isaiah 35:7), Sharon and the Valley of Achor as a "resting place" for flocks and herds (Isaiah 65:10), and the scattered people's forgotten "resting place" (Jeremiah 50:6).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7258. rebets רֵ֫בֶץ noun [masculine] (place of) lying down, resting- or dwelling-place;…
רֵ֫בֶץ noun [masculine] (place of) lying down, resting- or dwelling-place; — construct ׳ר בָּקָר Isa 65:10 (|| צאֹן נְוֵה); suffix רִבְצָהּ תַנִּים בִּנְוֵה Isa 35:7 (compare Ges§ 145m, but Du רָֽבְצָה, that is, flock); רִבְצָם Jer 50:6 (people as sheep); of man, רִבְצוֺ Pro 24:15 (|| צַדְּיק נְוֵה).
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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