רָבַץ râbats — to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal)
Translated in the KJV as crouch, fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie, make to rest, sit.
a primitive root; to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed.
râbats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 8Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 6Perfect (qatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (active) 2
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
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 ›