Quick Definition
to stretch
Strong's Definition
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
TWOT Reference: 2109
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רָבַץ (ra.vats) — to stretch. 1) to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out 1a) (Qal) to lie down, lie 1b)(Hiphil) to cause to lie down 1b1) laying (stones)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַרְבֵּץ · רֵבֶץ
Stance | verb qal
to lie down, to crouch, to sit = action by which humans or animals assume a horizontal position, either to rest or to attack
GEN 4:7 · GEN 29:2 · GEN 49:9 · GEN 49:14 · EXO 23:5 · NUM 22:27 · DEU 22:6 · JOB 11:19 · PSA 104:22 · ISA 11:6 · ISA 11:7 · ISA 13:21 · ISA 14:30 · ISA 17:2 · ISA 27:10 · EZK 19:2 · EZK 29:3 · EZK 34:14 · ZEP 2:7 · ZEP 2:14 · ZEP 3:13
Stance | verb hif
to make lie down = causative action by which humans cause animals to assume a horizontal position in order to rest
Happen | verb qal
to come down literally: to lie down; hence: = process by which a curse comes to reality in someone's life, ◄ as if it comes down to land on that person's head
Space | verb qal
to couch used in poetry only: = state in which an object is located in a certain place
Space | verb hif
to put, to set used in poetry only: = causative action by which humans cause an object to be located in a certain place
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
רָבַץ vb. stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out Qal lie down, lie
Hiph. cause to lie down, or lie
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