Rava רָבַע

Rava (Hebrew רָבַע, Strong's H7251) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to square”. It occurs 12 times in 12 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Rava, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 27:1
  And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
• Exodus 28:16
  Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
• Exodus 30:2
  A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.
• Exodus 37:25
  And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.
• Exodus 38:1
  And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
• Exodus 39:9
  It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.It was square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 7:5
  And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.
• 1 Kings 7:31
  And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 40:47
  So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
• Ezekiel 41:21
  The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.
• Ezekiel 43:16
  And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
• Ezekiel 45:2
  Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).