רָבַעrâbaʻ
lie stretched out, lie down
Pronunciation: raw-bah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7250
Meanings
Qal: elsewhere, for copulation (Psalms 139:3; Leviticus 20:16; 2 Samuel 13:14)
Hiph`il: (i.e. breed) (Leviticus 19:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 18:23 “A man must not defile himself by having sex with an animal. And a woman must not offer herself to a male animal to have intercourse with it. This is a perverse act.
- Leviticus 19:19 “You must obey all my decrees. “Do not mate two different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two different kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven from two different kinds of thread.
- Leviticus 20:16 “If a woman presents herself to a male animal to have intercourse with it, she and the animal must both be put to death. You must kill both, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).