Hebrew prep · H7535
רַק
raqrak
except
109 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7535is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 15 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7535
properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
The King James renders it: but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, so (that), surely, yet (so), in any wise.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
raq is rendered "except". It stands 109 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
Genesis 6:5רַ֥ק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- only100
- certainly6
- and only2
- ¿ only1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רַקָּה | raqqah | temple | Uses5 |
| רַק | raq | thin | Uses3 |
| רַקָּח | raqqach | perfumer | Uses1 |
| רַקֻּחַ | raqquach | perfumery | Uses1 |
| רַקָּחָה | raqqachah | perfumer | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 109, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רַ֥ק16
- רַק־14
- רַ֚ק13
- רַ֣ק12
- רַ֗ק9
- רַ֠ק8
- רַ֛ק6
- רַ֖ק5
- רַ֕ק5
- רַ֣ק׀4
- רַ֧ק3
- רַק֩3
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adverb106HD
- conjunction (“and”) + adverb2HC/D
- question particle + adverb1HTi/D
Genesis
ten uses
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion.”
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: certainly
And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
However, he did not acquire the priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.
- רַ֛קrakadverbtagged: only
So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.
- רַ֞קrakadverbtagged: only
along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
Exodus
eight uses
Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and your officials and your people that the frogs (except for those in the Nile) may be taken away from you and your houses?”
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
- רַ֛קrakadverbtagged: only
“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”
- רַ֖קrakadverbtagged: only
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”
- רַ֛קrakadverbtagged: only
then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
Numbers
two uses
“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
- הֲרַ֤קharakquestion particle + adverbtagged: ¿ only
“We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
Deuteronomy
twenty uses
You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,
- רַ֖קrakadverbtagged: only
We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
- רַ֛קrakadverbtagged: only
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: certainly
Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
- רַ֡קrakadverbtagged: only
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
- רַ֧קrakadverbtagged: only
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
- רַק֩rakadverbtagged: only
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.
- רַ֧קrakadverbtagged: only
if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
- רַק֮rakadverbtagged: only
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
- רַ֞קrakadverbtagged: only
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- רַ֛קrakadverbtagged: only
Joshua
fifteen uses
Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.
- רַק֩rakadverbtagged: only
Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”
- רַ֖קrakadverbtagged: only
Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- רַק֩rakadverbtagged: only
But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it.
- וְרַק־verak-conjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and only
Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
- רַ֣ק׀rakadverbtagged: only
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you.
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The offerings made by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, just as He had promised them.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
- רַ֣ק׀rakadverbtagged: only
Judges
seven uses
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
- וְרַק֙verakconjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and only
Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
“Peace to you,” said the old man. “Let me supply everything you need. Only do not spend the night in the square.”
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: certainly
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
1 Samuel
two uses
Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
1 Kings
twelve uses
The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
- רַ֤קrakadverbtagged: only
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
- רַ֖קrakadverbtagged: only
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
- רַ֕קrakadverbtagged: only
The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
Now the rest of the acts of Asa, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he became diseased in his feet.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: certainly
But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
2 Kings
eleven uses
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
- רַ֕קrakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, he clung to the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.
- רַ֕קrakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
- רַ֥קrakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
- רַ֤קrakadverbtagged: only
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,
- רַ֛קrakadverbtagged: only
I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
- רַ֣ק׀rakadverbtagged: only
2 Chronicles
eleven uses
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’
- רַ֠קrakadverbtagged: only
The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.
- רַ֧קrakadverbtagged: only
But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
- רַ֕קrakadverbtagged: only
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.
- רַ֕קrakadverbtagged: only
And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: certainly
However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had been more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.
- רַ֤קrakadverbtagged: only
I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”
- רַ֣ק׀rakadverbtagged: only
Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
- רַ֖קrakadverbtagged: only
Job
five uses
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
- רַ֣קrakadverbtagged: only
the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
Psalms
two uses
Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: certainly
You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.
- רַ֭קrakadverbtagged: only
Proverbs
one use
Arrogance leads only to strife, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
Isaiah
two uses
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
- רַ֗קrakadverbtagged: only
As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
- רַק־rak-adverbtagged: only
Amos
one use
“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
- רַ֚קrakadverbtagged: only
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How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
