רָבַע
rava · mate, lie down
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7250 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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rava (רָבַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mate, lie down”.
Lie down, stretch out; said of animals, mate.
How to say it
ra·va
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To lie down; of animals, to come together for offspring.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- mate ×2
- let breed ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 18:23
And you shall not lie with any beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before a beast to mate with it; it is perversion.
- Leviticus 19:19
You shall keep my statutes. Your beasts you shall not let breed with two kinds; your field you shall not sow with two kinds, and a garment of two kinds, of mixed fabric, shall not come on you.
- Leviticus 20:16
And a woman who approaches any beast to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is on them.