# רָבַץ (ravats) Israeli respelling: ra-vats. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H7257. 30 Old Testament occurrences. to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed King James renderings: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ravats-h7257 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/4/7) — 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 t… - [Genesis 29:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/2) — And 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… - [Genesis 49:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/9) — Judah 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 rous… - [Genesis 49:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/14) — Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: - [Genesis 49:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/25) — Even 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… - [Exodus 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/5) — If 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 22:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/27) — And 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. - [Deuteronomy 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/6) — If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sittin… - [Deuteronomy 29:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/20) — The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are writ… - [Deuteronomy 33:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/13) — And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth bene… - [Job 11:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/19) — Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee. - [Psalms 23:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/23/2) — He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. - [Psalms 104:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/22) — The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. - [Song of Solomon 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/1/7) — Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turne… - [Isaiah 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/6) — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling toget… - [Isaiah 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/7) — And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. - [Isaiah 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/20) — It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neithe… - [Isaiah 13:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/21) — But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs… - [Isaiah 14:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/30) — And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay t… - [Isaiah 17:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/2) — The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. - [Isaiah 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/10) — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shal… - [Isaiah 54:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/11) — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sap… - [Jeremiah 33:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/12) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be… - [Ezekiel 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/2) — And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. - [Ezekiel 29:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/3) — Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his… - [Ezekiel 34:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/14) — I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in… - [Ezekiel 34:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/15) — I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. - [Zephaniah 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/7) — And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in t… - [Zephaniah 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/14) — And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper l… - [Zephaniah 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/13) — The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed…