רָקַע
râqaʻ · raw-kah'
to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
- to pound the earth (as a sign of passion)
- by analogy, to expand (by hammering)
- by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to see and know
The head, the highest of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָקַע above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and they did beat1 · 9%
- and they were made broad1 · 9%
- and did spread them abroad1 · 9%
- hast thou with him spread out1 · 9%
- to him that stretched out1 · 9%
- spreadeth1 · 9%
- he that spread forth1 · 9%
- alone; that spreadeth abroad1 · 9%
- spread into plates1 · 9%
- and stamp1 · 9%
- and stamped1 · 9%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.