H7251: רָבַע
râbaʻ · pronounced raw-bah' · “to square”
Definition
to be quadrate
KJV translates it as: (four-) square(-d).
Word origin: a primitive root (rather identical with H7250 (רָבַע) through the idea of sprawling 'at all fours' (or possibly the reverse is the order of deriv.); compare H702 (אַרְבַּע)); properly, to be four (sided); used only as denominative of H7253 (רֶבַע);
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) square (participle)
1b) (Pual) square (participle)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7251 is translated
- square ×8
- were square ×2
- a square ×2
Bible verses with H7251 (râbaʻ)
Râbaʻ appears in 12 verses.
- Exodus 27:1
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 28:16
Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
- Exodus 30:2
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
- Exodus 37:25
And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
- Exodus 38:1
And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
- Exodus 39:9
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
- 1 Kings 7:5
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:31
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
- Ezekiel 40:47
So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
- Ezekiel 41:21
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
- Ezekiel 43:16
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
- Ezekiel 45:2
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.