ravats · lie down, crouch

What it means

ravats (רָבַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lie down, crouch”.

Like an animal at rest or lying in wait.

How to say it

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

1. To recline at rest; sin "lurking at the door".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• will lie down ×9
• lie down ×7
• lies ×3
• lay down ×2
• lying ×2
• lying down ×2
• You will stretch out ×1
• am setting ×1
• crouching ×1
• sitting ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Zephaniah×3

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, will there not be a lifting up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and toward you is its desire, but you will rule over it.”

• Genesis 29:2

  He looked, and look, a well in the field, and look, there three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.

• Genesis 49:9

  A lion’s cub is Judah; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness; who dares rouse him?

• Genesis 49:14

  Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

• Genesis 49:25

  by the El of your father, who will help you, and by Shaddai, who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

• Exodus 23:5

  When you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him; you shall surely help with him.

• Numbers 22:27

  And the donkey saw the angel of YHWH and lay down under Balaam; and Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with the stick.

• Deuteronomy 22:6

  If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest before you on the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

• Deuteronomy 29:20

  YHWH will not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of YHWH and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and every oath of imprecation written in this book will settle on him, and YHWH will blot out his name from under the heavens.

• Deuteronomy 33:13

  And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by YHWH be his land, with the choicest gifts of the heavens, with the dew, and with the deep that lies beneath,

• Job 11:19

  You will stretch out with none to make you afraid, and many will entreat your favor.

• Psalms 23:2

  In pastures of grass he makes me lie down; beside waters of rest he leads me.

• Psalms 104:22

  The sun rises, they gather together, and in their dens they lie down.

• Song of Songs 1:7

  Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

• Isaiah 11:6

  And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fattened animal together, and a little boy will lead them.

• Isaiah 11:7

  And the cow and the bear will graze; their young will lie down together; and the lion, like the ox, will eat straw.

• Isaiah 13:20

  It will never be inhabited, nor be dwelt in from generation to generation; nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, nor shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

• Isaiah 13:21

  And desert creatures will lie down there, and their houses will be filled with owls; and ostriches will dwell there, and male goats will dance there.

• Isaiah 14:30

  And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and it will kill your remnant.

• Isaiah 17:2

  The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be for flocks, and they will lie down with no one to make them afraid.

• Isaiah 27:10

  For the fortified city is solitary, an abode sent away and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there it will lie down and consume its branches.

• Isaiah 54:11

  “Afflicted one, storm-tossed, not comforted: look, I am setting your stones on antimony, and I will lay your foundations on sapphires.

• Jeremiah 33:12

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Once more there will be in this place that is laid waste, without human being or even livestock, and in all its cities, a dwelling of shepherds who make the flock lie down.

• Ezekiel 19:2

  and say, “What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down in the midst of young lions; she reared her cubs.

• Ezekiel 29:3

  Speak and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great sea monster lying in the midst of his channels, who has said, “Mine is my Nile, and I made it for myself.”

• Ezekiel 34:14

  In good pasture I will feed them, and on the mountains of the height of Israel will be their fold; there they will lie down in a good fold, and in fat pasture they will graze on the mountains of Israel.

• Ezekiel 34:15

  I will feed my sheep, and I will make them lie down, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Zephaniah 2:7

  And the strip will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; on them they will graze; in the houses of Ashkelon in the evening they will lie down; for YHWH their Elohim will attend to them and turn back their captivity.

• Zephaniah 2:14

  And flocks will lie down in her midst, every animal of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge in her capitals; a voice will sing in the window; dryness will be on the threshold; for her cedar work has been laid bare.

• Zephaniah 3:13

  The remnant of Israel will not do injustice nor speak lies, nor will there be found in their mouth a tongue of deceit; for they will graze and lie down, and there will be no one to make them afraid.”