Midvash

רֶבַעrebaʻ

a fourth (part or side)

Pronunciation: reh'-bah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7253

Meanings

1. fourth part

2. four sides

1. fourth part (1 Samuel 9:8; Exodus 29:40)

2. four sides (Ezekiel 43:16; Ezekiel 43:17; Ezekiel 1:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 29:40 With one of them, offer two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of pure oil of pressed olives; also, offer one quart of wine as a liquid offering.
  • 1 Samuel 9:8 “Well,” the servant said, “I have one small silver piece. We can at least offer it to the man of God and see what happens!”
  • Ezekiel 1:8 Under each of their four wings I could see human hands. So each of the four beings had four faces and four wings.
  • Ezekiel 1:17 The beings could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved.
  • Ezekiel 10:11 The cherubim could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved. They went straight in the direction they faced, never turning aside.
  • Ezekiel 43:16 The top of the altar is square, measuring 21 feet by 21 feet.
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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).