revii · fourth

What it means

revii (רְבִיעִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fourth”.

A fourth part.

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. What holds the place after the third.
2. One of four equal parts.
3. With four equal sides, like a square.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Fourth: the ordinal number that corresponds to four (אַרְבַּע). In Exodus 29:40 the feminine form means “the fourth part” of a hin.

• The fourth in a series: day, river, year of a king Genesis 1:19Genesis 2:14Jeremiah 25:1
• The fourth generation Genesis 15:162 Kings 10:30
• A quarter, the fourth part of a measure or of a day Numbers 15:4Nehemiah 9:3
• Square in shape Ezekiel 48:20

Historical and cultural background

The law commanded that the fruit of a new tree not be eaten in the first years: “in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to YHWH” (Leviticus 19:24).

How we translate it

“Fourth” 48 times (“a fourth day”, “the fourth generation”, “a fourth of the day”) and “quarter” 5 for measures (“a quarter of a hin of oil”, Numbers 15:4). Twice the context asks for another form: “{as} a square”, for the holy contribution of Ezekiel 48:20, and “four-sided”, for the doorposts of 1 Kings 6:33.

How it is translated

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

• fourth ×48
• quarter ×5
• as a square ×1
• four-sided ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×7
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×14
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Jeremiah×8
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 1:19

  And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

• Genesis 2:14

  And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

• Genesis 15:16

  And in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

• Exodus 28:20

  and the fourth row, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper. They shall be set in gold in their mountings.

• Exodus 39:13

  and the fourth row, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper; set in settings of gold in their mountings.

• Leviticus 19:24

  And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to YHWH.

• Leviticus 23:13

  and its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma; and its libation of wine, a fourth of a hin.

• Numbers 7:30

  On the fourth day, the chief of the sons of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur:

• Numbers 15:4

  the one who presents his offering to YHWH shall present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:5

  and wine for the libation, a quarter of a hin, you shall offer with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

• Numbers 28:5

  and a tenth of the ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.

• Numbers 28:7

  Its libation shall be a quarter of a hin for the one lamb; in the holy place pour out a libation of intoxicating drink to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:14

  And their libations shall be half a hin for a bull, and a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb, of wine. This is the burnt offering of each month for the months of the year.

• Numbers 29:23

  And on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, without defect;

• Joshua 19:17

  For Issachar the fourth lot came out, for the sons of Issachar according to their families.

• Judges 19:5

  And it happened on the fourth day that they rose early in the morning, and he arose to go; but the father of the young woman said to his son-in-law, “Sustain your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you may go.”

• 2 Samuel 3:4

  and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

• 1 Kings 6:1

  And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year in the month of Ziv, that is the second month, of Solomon’s reign over Israel, that he built the house for YHWH.

• 1 Kings 6:33

  And so he made for the entrance of the temple doorposts of olive wood, four-sided,

• 1 Kings 6:37

  In the fourth year the house of YHWH was founded, in the month of Ziv;

• 2 Kings 10:30

  YHWH said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes, and according to all that was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab, sons of the fourth generation will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

• 2 Kings 15:12

  That was the word of YHWH that he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Sons of yours to the fourth generation will sit on the throne of Israel.” And so it was.

• 2 Kings 18:9

  And it happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

• 1 Chronicles 2:14

  Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

• 1 Chronicles 3:2

  the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

• 1 Chronicles 3:15

  And the sons of Josiah: the firstborn, Johanan; the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum.

• 1 Chronicles 8:2

  Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

• 1 Chronicles 12:10

  Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

• 1 Chronicles 23:19

  The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the head, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

• 1 Chronicles 24:8

  for Harim the third, for Seorim the fourth,

• 1 Chronicles 24:23

  The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the head, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

• 1 Chronicles 25:11

  the fourth for Izri: his sons and his brothers, twelve;

• 1 Chronicles 26:2

  Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

• 1 Chronicles 26:4

  Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

• 1 Chronicles 26:11

  Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brothers of Hosah, thirteen.

• 1 Chronicles 27:7

  The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 20:26

  On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed YHWH; therefore they called the name of that place the Valley of Beracah, to this day.

• Ezra 8:33

  And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed in the house of our Elohim by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites:

• Nehemiah 9:3

  And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of YHWH their Elohim a fourth of the day, and for another fourth they were confessing and prostrating themselves before YHWH their Elohim.

• Jeremiah 25:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah —that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—

And 15 more times.