Fourth
רֹ֫בַעStrong’s H7255rova (ro-va)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rova is the Hebrew word usually translated “fourth part of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!”
Meaning
- Fourth part
How it's translated
- fourth part of 1
- and fourth part of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
רֹ֫בַע rova · fourth
fourth part
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.