Lexicon raba: to square Original Word: רָבַעPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: raba Phonetic Spelling: (raw-bah') Short Definition: square NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origindenominative verb from arbaDefinitionto square NASB Translationsquare (11), squared (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ רְבַע] verb denominative, only Passive participle squared, square; — Qal Passive participle רָבוּעַ square, of altar Exodus 27:1; Exodus 30:2; Exodus 37:25; Exodus 38:1, compare Ezekiel 43:16; breastplate Ezekiel 30:2; Ezekiel 39:9; plural רְבֻעִים, of doorways, etc. [on text see Kit Benz] 1 Kings 7:5; feminine singular רְבֻעָה as substantive = a square Ezekiel 41:21 (accusative Co Toy, omit מְזוּזַת, and joining ׳ר to Ezekiel 41:20; Krae reads מְזוּזתֹ רְבֻעֹת, compare 1 Kings 6:33, רְבִייְִ 2). Pu`al Participle square, מְרֻבַּע Ezekiel 45:2, of piece of land; feminine singular מְרֻבָּ֑עַת Ezekiel 40:47, of court; feminine plural מְרֻבָּעוֺת 1 Kings 7:31 (opposed to עֲנֻלּוֺת), of borders of bases (compare Sabean רבעתם, a kind of square building, SabDenkm31).
Strong's foursquared A primitive root (rather identical with raba' through the idea of sprawling "at all fours" (or possibly the reverse is the order of deriv.); compare arba'); properly, to be four (sided); used only as denominative of reba'; to be quadrate -- (four-)square(-d). see HEBREW raba' see HEBREW arba' see HEBREW reba' |
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