Bible word study

Rabats (Strong’s H7257): Meaning in the Bible

Rabats (רָבַץ) is the Hebrew word numbered H7257 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed. In the King James Bible it is translated crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to.

• Original wordרָבַץ
• Transliterationrâbats
• Pronunciationraw-bats'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH7257
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Rabats appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Rabats (H7257) stands behind 30 English renderings in 30 verses across 11 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (8), Genesis (5), Ezekiel (4).

How the King James Bible renders Rabats, by count

• down16 of 30 (53 percent)
• lie3 of 30 (10 percent)
• lieth3 of 30 (10 percent)
• lying2 of 30 (7 percent)
• beneath1 of 30 (3 percent)
• couched1 of 30 (3 percent)

Three places to read Rabats

• Genesis 4:7 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.
• Job 11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
• Isaiah 27:10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Rabats in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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