# H7257 רָבַץ

רָבַץ (râbats), Strong’s H7257: to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed KJV: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay…

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

KJV: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to…

Occurs 30 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רָבַץ vb. stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out
- Qal lie down, lie
- Hiph. cause to lie down, or lie

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=7) — If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you…
- [Genesis 29:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=2) — He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they…
- [Genesis 49:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=9) — Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness…
- [Genesis 49:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=14) — “Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.
- [Genesis 49:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=25) — even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above…
- [Exodus 23:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=5) — If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him…
- [Numbers 22:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=27) — The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with…
- [Deuteronomy 22:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/22?v=6) — If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting…
- [Deuteronomy 29:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=19) — The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse…
- [Deuteronomy 33:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/33?v=13) — About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by the LORD, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the…