Strong's Hebrew · H7257
רָבַץ
râbats · raw-bats'
crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
Definition
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 30 times in Scripture
“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?”
“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.”
“The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.”
“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.”
“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.”
“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.”
“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.””
“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.”
“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.”
“When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).