רְבִיעִי
fourth
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Determined
- A noun marked definite — in Aramaic, the emphatic state.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Definite Article 6 times (60%)
- Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (30%)
- Adjective, Ordinal number, Both, Singular, Determined 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7244 appears — 5 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 5 verses
- Daniel 2:40 רביעיה רְבִ֣יעָאָ֔ה adj Ordinal number bs det adj Ordinal number fs The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.
- Daniel 3:25 רביעי/א רְֽבִיעָ/אָ֔ה adj Ordinal number ms det + ptcl def.art adj Ordinal number ms det + ptcl def.art He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
- Daniel 7:7 רביעיה רְֽבִיעָאָ֡ה adj Ordinal number fs adj Ordinal number fs After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
- Daniel 7:19 רְבִיעָ֣יְתָ֔/א adj Ordinal number fs det + ptcl def.art Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
- Daniel 7:23 רְבִיעָ֣יְתָ֔/א רביעי/א רְבִיעָ/אָה֙ adj Ordinal number fs det + ptcl def.art adj Ordinal number ms det + ptcl def.art adj Ordinal number fs det + ptcl def.art Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“fourth” is the headline sense of the Hebrew adjective רביעי (rᵉbîyʻay). With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Daniel, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. First canonically at Daniel 2:40, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7244 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 5 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fourth 6×
- American Standard Version: Fourth 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fourth 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fourth 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7244 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7244 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7244 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7244 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fourth
Word origin
[ רְבִיעִי ] adj.num.ord. fourth
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רביעי (rᵉbîyʻîy) (H7243) — fourth.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רְבִיעִי
- (b. h.) fourth. Taan. 29ᵇ חל להיות … בר׳ (sub. בשבת) if the ninth of Ab falls … on a Wednesday; Meg. 22ᵇ. Keth. I, 1 בתילה נשאת ליום הר׳ it is customary for a virgin to be married on the fourth day of the week; a. v. fr.—Esp. fourth grade of uncleanness. Ḥag. III, 2; Tosef. ib. III, 7 הר׳ פסול וכ׳ the fourth grade is a disqualification in sacrificial food, the third, in T’rumah. Ib. 18; a. fr.—Fem. רְבִיעִית. Meg. III, 4 (29ᵃ) בר׳ on the fourth Sabbath of Adar; a. fr.—Esp. (sub. לוֹג) one fourth of a Log. B. Bath. 58ᵇ איזהו אנטל זהו ר׳ what is Anṭal? The fourth of a Log mentioned in connection with religious ceremonies (v. comment.). Y. Sabb. VIII, 11ᵃ bot. ר׳ של תורה וכ׳ Ar. (ed. שיעורו של כוס) the legal r’biʿith (for the cup of the Passover night) is a bottom of two fingers by two, with a height of one and five-sixths of a finger. Sot. 5ᵃ אדם שאין בו אלא ר׳ אחת וכ׳ man in whom there is only one-fourth of a Log (of vital blood, v. Rashi) &c.; Sabb. 31ᵇ bot.; a. v. fr.—Pl. רְבִיעִיּוֹת. Sot. l. c. Lam. R. to IV, 1 (ref. to אבני קדש, ib.) אלו שתי ר׳ של דם וכ׳ this refers to the two-fourths of blood (of king Josiah) which Jeremiah took up (from the battlefield) and buried (v. II Chr. XXXV, 24 sq.). Pes. 112ᵃ לילי ר׳ the nights of the fourth days of the week, Tuesday evenings; a. fr. e.g. 2 Chronicles 35:24
רְבִיעַי
- , v. רְבִיעָאָה
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H7244 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רביעיה | Adjective, Ordinal number, Both, Singular, Determined | Daniel 2:40 | 2 |
| רְבִיעָ֣יְתָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:19 | 2 |
| רביעי/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:25 | 2 |
| רְֽבִיעָ/אָ֔ה | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:25 | 1 |
| רְֽבִיעָאָ֡ה | Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:7 | 1 |
| רְבִ֣יעָאָ֔ה | Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:40 | 1 |
| רְבִיעָ/אָה֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:23 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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