STRONGS NUMBER H7251


Word Summary
raba: to square
Original Word: רָבַע
Transliteration: raba
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-bah')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to square
Meaning: to be quadrate
Strong's Concordance
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'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7251. raba

[רְבַע‎] verb denominative, only Passive participle squared, square; —

Qal Passive participle רָבוּעַsquare, of altar Exodus 27:1; 30:2; 37:25; 38:1, compare Ezekiel 43:16; breastplate 30:2; 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 41:20; Krae reads רְבֻעֹת מְזוּזתֹ‎, compare 1 Kings 6:33, רְבִייְִ2).

Pu`al Participle square, מְרֻבַּעEzekiel 45:2, of piece of land; feminine singular מְרֻבָּ֑עַת40:47, of court; feminine plural מְרֻבָּעוֺת1 Kings 7:31 (opposed to עֲנֻלּוֺת‎), of borders of bases (compare Sabean רבעתם‎, a kind of square building, SabDenkm31).