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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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
רָבַעrâbaʻ · raw-bah'
H7251 · Hebrew
H7251 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to be quadrate
- Derivation
- 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);
- KJV renderings
- (four-) square(-d).
- Grammar
- רָב֧וּעַ — verb Qal, passive participle, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 12 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 27:1Exodus 28:16Exodus 30:2Exodus 37:25Exodus 38:1
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read רָבַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.