Fourth
רְבִיעִיStrong’s H7244reviay (re-vi-ay)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Reviay is the Aramaic word usually translated “fourth” and “fourth the”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”
Meaning
- Fourth
How it's translated
- fourth 4
- fourth the 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:25In contextHe answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:19In contextThen I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
- Daniel 7:23In contextThus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Aramaic dictionary
רְבִיעִי reviay · fourth
fourth Aramaic of re.vi.i (רְבִיעִי "fourth" H7243)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fourth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOURTH, adjective
The ordinal of four; the next after the third.
All definitions and other forms of “fourth”
FOURTH, noun
In music, an interval composed of two tones and a semitone. Three full tones compose a triton, or fourth redundant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.