Lexicon raba: to lie stretched out, lie down Original Word: רָבַעPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: raba Phonetic Spelling: (raw-bah') Short Definition: mate NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto lie stretched out, lie down NASB Translationbreed together (1), lying down (1), mate (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ 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, DHM ZMG xxix (1875), 593, Arabic  abide, dwell) — Qal only Infinitive: suffix רִבְעִי Psalm 139:3 my lying down (for repose, opposed to אָרְחִי); elsewhere (H) for copulation (woman with beast) לְרִבְעָה אֹתָהּ Leviticus 20:16, but read אִתָּהּ (suffix of beast) Dr-Wh KöSynt. 226 e, compare Bae Berthol (and Dr2Samuel 13:14); לְרִבְעָהּ 2 Samuel 18:23, read לְרִבְעָה (compl. omitted; see id.). Hiph`il Imperfect2masculine singular בְּהֶמְתְּךָ לֹא תַרְבִּיעַ כִּלְאַיִם Leviticus 19:19 (H) thy cattle thou shalt not cause to (let) lie down (i.e. breed) in two kinds.
Strong's let gender, lie down A primitive root; to squat or lie out flat, i.e. (specifically) in copulation -- let gender, lie down. |
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