Fourth
רִבֵּעַStrong’s H7256ribbea (rib-be-a)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ribbea is the Hebrew word usually translated “fourth generation”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;”
Meaning
- Pertaining to the fourth
How it's translated
- a fourth generation 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 34:7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
- Numbers 14:18The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
- Deuteronomy 5:9Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Hebrew dictionary
רִבֵּעַ ribbea · fourth
pertaining to the fourth
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.