*rbd: 'to cover, spread (a bed), lay in layers'
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PCS *rbd 'to cover, to put in layers' (Kogan 2015: 304 apud SEDonline 281); PC *rbd 'to prepare, to cover a bed' (SEDonline 280). Hbr. räbäd 'mosaic pavement' is post-Biblical. Cf. 794 *rubd-.
Updated 25 October 2026