רָבַץ

Genesis 4:7 רֹבֵ֑ץ [is] crouching

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

Here: Used of animals lying stretched out, including a lion crouched over its prey (Gen 49:9). Sin is an animal settled at the doorway, ready to spring. It may also echo the Akkadian rābiṣu, a demon known for lurking at entrances (see studies).

Genesis 29:2 רֹבְצִ֣ים [were] lying down

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Genesis 49:9 רָבַ֧ץ he lies down

Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

Here: An animal lying stretched out at rest, the same verb as in Psalm 23:2 ('makes me lie down'). Together with karaʿ it pictures a lion lying at ease, untroubled by any threat.

Genesis 49:14 רֹבֵ֖ץ lying down

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

Genesis 49:25 רֹבֶ֣צֶת [which] lies

by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.

Here: A participle ("crouching," an ongoing state) normally used of animals lying down: Judah the lion (49:9), Issachar the donkey (49:14), sin crouching at the door (4:7). The deep is pictured as a great beast lying quietly under the land.

Exodus 23:5 רֹבֵץ֙ lying down

If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

Numbers 22:27 וַתִּרְבַּ֖ץ and it lay down

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.

Deuteronomy 22:6 רֹבֶ֙צֶת֙ [is] lying

If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

Deuteronomy 29:20 וְרָ֤בְצָה and it will lie down

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Here: Used of animals lying down: a lion crouching (Gen 49:9), a donkey collapsed under its load (Exod 23:5), sin 'crouching' at the door (Gen 4:7). The curse settles down on him and stays put, like a beast lying on its prey or a dead weight.

Deuteronomy 33:13 רֹבֶ֥צֶת [which] lies

Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,

Here: A feminine verb form agreeing with "deep". The word is normally used of animals lying or crouching. The deep is pictured like a great animal lying at rest under the land, held in check and giving up its water.

Job 11:19 וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּ and you will lie down

You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

Psalm 23:2 יַרְבִּיצֵ֑נִי he makes lie down me

He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.

Here: A form of the verb meaning 'cause to lie down', used for animals settling to rest. Shepherds bringing their flocks to rest is a set phrase for this verb. The ongoing verb form gives a regular pattern: this is what he does.

Psalm 104:22 יִרְבָּצֽוּן׃ they lie down !

The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.

Song of Songs 1:7 תַּרְבִּ֣יץ will you make [them] lie down

Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

Here: Causative form: 'make [the flock] lie down,' i.e. bring them to rest. The same verb shapes Psalm 23:2, 'He makes me lie down in green pastures.' It is a shepherd's technical word for settling animals.

Isaiah 11:6 יִרְבָּ֑ץ it will lie down

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

Here: To lie down or crouch, the way an animal rests. The same verb can describe a predator crouching in ambush (Gen 49:9; compare Gen 4:7). Here the leopard's crouch is rest, not a hunting position.

Isaiah 11:7 יִרְבְּצ֣וּ they will lie down

The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

Here: The word for animals bedding down in safety. It is also the word for a predator crouching over its prey. Here calf and cub do the first kind of lying down side by side.

Isaiah 13:20 יַרְבִּ֥צוּ they will make lie down

She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

Here: The causative form, 'cause to lie down,' with 'flocks' understood. It is the verb of Psalm 23:2, 'he makes me lie down.' In the next verse the simple form returns: wild desert creatures 'lie down' there.

Isaiah 13:21 וְרָבְצוּ־ and they will lie down

But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Isaiah 14:30 יִרְבָּ֑צוּ they will lie down

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

Isaiah 17:2 וְרָבְצ֖וּ and they will lie down

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

Here: "And they will lie down." The subject now shifts from the cities to the flocks. This is the ordinary word for a four-footed animal settling on the ground, and here the animals rest where households once lived.

Isaiah 27:10 יִרְבָּ֖ץ it will lie down

For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

Here: This is how animals settle to rest. Nothing and no one disturbs them, so the place is completely empty of people (compare Isa 17:2).

Isaiah 54:11 מַרְבִּ֤יץ [am] about to set

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Here: The root is normally used of animals lying down or flocks being made to rest (Ps 23:2 'he makes me lie down'). Here the causative participle means 'making lie down / setting' stones in their bed. After 'look, I…', the participle means action that is about to happen: 'I am about to set'.

Jeremiah 33:12 מַרְבִּצִ֖ים [who] make to lie down

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

Ezekiel 19:2 רָבָ֑צָה she lay down

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

Ezekiel 29:3 הָרֹבֵ֖ץ which lies

Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

Here: 'The one lying sprawled.' The word is used for an animal at rest, which here suits a crocodile basking at ease in its own territory, sure that nothing can touch it.

Ezekiel 34:14 תִּרְבַּ֙צְנָה֙ they will lie down

I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 34:15 אַרְבִּיצֵ֔ם I will make lie down them

I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.

Zephaniah 2:7 יִרְבָּצ֔וּן they will lie down !

The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.

Here: This is the verb for animals stretching out to rest. It suggests calm and security, the lying down of Psalm 23:2, and again has the emphatic -n ending.

Zephaniah 2:14 וְרָבְצ֨וּ and they will lie down

Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.

Zephaniah 3:13 וְרָבְצ֖וּ and they will lie down

The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”

Here: 'And they will lie down' — the word for animals resting, as in Psalm 23:2 ('he makes me lie down'). Sheep only lie down when fed and unthreatened.