Strong’s H7251 · Hebrew

רָבַע
râbaʻ
raw-bah'

Definition

to be quadrate

Etymology

a primitive root (rather identical with H7250 (רָבַע) through the idea of sprawling 'at all fours' (or possibly the reverse is the order of deriv.); compare H702 (אַרְבַּע)); properly, to be four (sided); used only as denominative of H7253 (רֶבַע);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • (four-) square(-d)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.