To stretch
רָבַץStrong’s H7257ravats (ra-vats)
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ravats is the Hebrew word usually translated “lie down”, “lying down” and “lies”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”
Meaning
- To stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out(Qal) to lie down, lie · (Hiphil) to cause to lie down
How it's translated
- they will lie down 4
- and they will lie down 4
- lying down 3
- lies 2
- it will lie down 2
- crouching 1
- he lies down 1
- and it lay down 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Genesis 5
- Ezekiel 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Zephaniah 3
- Psalms 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 29:2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
- Genesis 49:9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
- Genesis 49:14Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
- Genesis 49:25Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
- Exodus 23:5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
- Numbers 22:27And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
Hebrew dictionary
רָבַץ ravats · to stretch
1) to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out 1a) (Qal) to lie down, lie 1b)(Hiphil) to cause to lie down 1b1) laying (stones)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stretch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRETCH, verb transitive
[Latin]
- To draw out to greater length; to extend in a line; as, to stretch a cord or a rope.
- To extend in breadth; as, to stretch cloth.
- To spread; to expand; as, to stretch the wings.
- To reach; to extend.
All definitions and other forms of “stretch”
- To spread; to display; as, to stretch forth the heavens.
- To draw or pull out in length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
- To make tense; to strain.
- To extend mentally; as, to stretch the mind or thoughts.
- To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch ones credit.
STRETCH, verb intransitive
- To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both.
- To be extended; to spread; as, a lake stretches over a hundred miles of earth.
- To stretch to, is to reach.
- To be extended or to bear extension without breaking, as elastic substances.
- To sally beyond the truth; to exaggerate.
- In navigation, to sail; to direct a course.
- To make violent efforts in running.
STRETCH, noun
- Extension in length or in breadth; reach; as a great stretch of wings.
- Effort; struggle; strain.
- Force of body; straining.
- Utmost extent of meaning.
- Utmost reach of power.
- In sailing, a tack; the reach or extent of progress on one tack.
- Course; direction; as the stretch of seams of coal.
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.