Senses
1. square, four-sided (passive participle) — Passive participle of רָבַע (raba') in Pual/Qal passive, meaning 'squared' or 'made four-sided,' used to describe the shape of architectural and cultic objects such as the altar, breastpiece, and temple structures. Occurs in both singular and plural, masculine and feminine forms. Eng 'square / squared,' Spa 'cuadrado / cuadrados,' Hin 'चौकोर,' Arb 'مُرَبَّعاً / مُرَبَّعَةٌ,' Kor '네모난,' Swa 'mraba / za mraba.' All inflectional variants express the same adjectival sense of four-cornered shape. 12×
AR["مُرَبَّعاً","مُرَبَّعًا","مُرَبَّعٌ","مُرَبَّعَةً","مُرَبَّعَةٌ"]·ben["চতুর্ভুজ","চতুষ্কোণ","বর্গাকার"]·DE["[מרבע]","[מרבעת]","[רבוע]","[רבעה]","square","squared"]·EN["square","squared"]·FR["carré","squared","être-carré"]·heb["מרובע","מרובעות","מרובעים","מרובעת","רבוע","רבועה","ריבוע"]·HI["चौकोर","चौरस"]·ID["Empat-persegi","Persegi","bujur-sangkar","empat-persegi","persegi","persegi-empat"]·IT["[מרבע]","[מרבעת]","[רבוע]","[רבעה]","square","squared"]·jav["Pesagi","pasagi","persagi","pesagi","pesagi,"]·KO["네모난","네모진","정사각형의"]·PT["Quadrado","quadradas","quadrado"]·RU["Квадратным","квадратный","квадратным","четырёхугольные","четырёхугольным"]·ES["Cuadrado","cuadrada","cuadrado","cuadrados"]·SW["fremu","mraba","za-mraba"]·TR["kare"]·urd["مربع","چوکور"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [רָבַע] vb.denom., only Pt. pass. squared, square;— Qal Pt. pass. רָבוּעַ square, of altar Ex 27:1; 30:2; 37:25; 38:1, cf. Ez 43:16; breastplate 30:2; 39:9; pl. רְבֻעִים, of doorways, etc. [on text v. Kit Benz] 1 K 7:5; fs. רְבֻעָה as subst. = a square Ez 41:21 (acc. Co Toy, om. מְזוּזַה, and joining ר׳ to v 20; Krae reads מְזוּזֹת רְבֻעֹת, cf. 1 K 6:33, רְבִיעִי 2). Pu. Pt. square, מְרֻבַּע Ez…