Lexical Definition

‎רָבַץ‎ râbats (raw-bats') to stretch ^H:V
a primitive root

crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.

• to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal)
• be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

1) to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out
1a) (Qal) to lie down, lie
1b)(Hiphil) to cause to lie down
1b1) laying (stones)

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎רָבַץ‎ verb stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Assyrian rabâƒu, lie, dwell; rubƒu (in word-lists), stall, also womb (compare II. ‎רבע‎ above); Arabic lie down, on the breast, stretch oneself out, Sabean ‎מרבצֿן‎ CIS^{iv. no. 5, 2}; ᵑ7 ‎רְבַע‎ lie stretched out, Syriac , Christian-Palestinian Aramaic recline at meals, Schw^{Idioticon 87}); —

Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ‎׳‎‎ר‎ Gen 49:9, 3 feminine singular consecutive ‎וְרָֽבְצָה‎ Deut 29:19*, ‎רָבָ֑צָה‎ Ezek 19:2, etc.; Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יִרְבָּ֑ץ‎ Isa 11:6; Isa 27:10 3 feminine singular ‎וַתִּרְבַּץ‎ Num 22:27 3 masculine plural ‎יִרְבְּצוּ‎ Num 11:7 ‎יִרְבָּ֑צוּ‎ Num 14:30 ‎יִרְבָּצ֑וּן‎ Zeph 2:7; Ps 104:22 3 feminine plural ‎תִּרְבַּצְנָה‎ Ezek 34:14 Participle ‎רֹבֵץ‎ Exod 23:5 + 3 t.; feminine ‎רֹבֶ֫צֶת‎ Gen 49:25 + 2 t.; masculine plural ‎רֹבְצֹים‎ Gen 29:2 — lie down, lie: of domestic animals, ass Exod 23:5 (E; under heavy burden), Num 22:27 (Jeremiah; in obstructed path), Gen 49:14 (at ease; poetic, in simile); sheep, in repose, Gen 29:2 (J), Isa 17:2; Zeph 2:14 figurative of people Ezek 34:14 calf. in repose Isa 27:10: of wild beasts, lion, in lair, Gen 49:9 (poem in J; figurative), Ps 104:22 = make lair, abode Ezek 19:2 (figurative), so of ‎צִיִּים‎ Isa 13:21, ‎תַּנֵין‎ Ezek 29:3 (figurative); leopard (with kid) Isa 11:6, compare vIsa 11:7 = brood, of mother-bird Deut 22:6 (‎עַלהָֿאֶפְרֹחִים‎); of man, in repose Isa 14:30; Job 11:19, compare Zeph 2:7; Zeph 3:13 (figurative of flock perhaps implied, compare Ezek 34:14 above); of the deep, ‎רֹבֶצֶת תָּ֑חַת‎ Gen 49:25; Deut 33:13 figurative of curse Deut 29:19* (‎ב‎ person); of sin, ‎לַפֶּתַח חַטָאת רֹבֵץ‎ Gen 4:7 at the door sin makes its lair. Hiph`il Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix ‎יַרְבִּיצֵנִי‎ Ps 23:2, 2 masculine singular ‎תַּרְבִּיץ‎ Song 1:7, etc.; Participle ‎מַרְבִּיץ‎ Isa 54:1l, plural ‎מַרְבִּצִים‎ Jer 33:12 — cause to lie down, or lie, accusative of flock (for repose) Jer 33:12, also (figurative) Ps 23:2; Ezek 34:15 accusative of flock omitted Isa 13:10; Song 1:7 of laying stones Isa 54:1l.

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