רָבַע râbaʻ — to squat or lie out flat, i.e. (specifically) in copulation
Translated in the KJV as let gender, lie down.
a primitive root; to squat or lie out flat, i.e. (specifically) in copulation.
râbaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 2
Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›