Strong’s H7251 · Hebrew
רָבַע
râbaʻ · raw-bah'
Origin a primitive root (rather identical with רָבַע (H7250) through the idea of sprawling 'at all fours' (or possibly the reverse is the order of deriv.); compare אַרְבַּע (H702)); properly, to be four (sided); used only as denominative of רֶבַע (H7253);
Meaning to be quadrate
In the King James Version (four-) square(-d).
In 12 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 27:1And 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.
- Exodus 28:16Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
- Exodus 30:2A 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.
- Exodus 37:25And 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.
- Exodus 38:1And 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.
- Exodus 39:9It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
- 1 Kings 7:5And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:31And 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.
- Ezekiel 40:47So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
- Ezekiel 41:21The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
- Ezekiel 43:16And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
- Ezekiel 45:2Of 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.