Hebrew verb · H7554
רָקַע
raqaraw-kah'
to beat
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râqaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7554is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7554
to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
The King James renders it: beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.
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
raqa is rendered "to beat". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 39:3They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman.
Exodus 39:3וַֽיְרַקְּע֞וּ
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
- spread out2
- and people beat out them1
- and stamp1
- and stamping you1
- and they hammered out1
- beaten1
- he will overlay it1
- I beat out them1
- to spread out1
- will you spread out1
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.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- רֹקַ֥ע2
- אֶרְקָעֵֽם׃1
- וַֽיְרַקְּע֞וּ1
- וַֽיְרַקְּע֖וּם1
- וּרְקַ֤ע1
- וְרַקְעֲךָ֖1
- יְרַקְּעֶ֑נּוּ1
- לְרֹקַ֣ע1
- מְרֻקָּ֞ע1
- תַּרְקִ֣יעַ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
- Hc/Vpw3mp1Hc/Vpw3mp
- Hc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqcc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqv2ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Vqrmsc
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HVPsmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi1cs/Sp3mp
Exodus
one use
They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman.
- וַֽיְרַקְּע֞וּvayrakeuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they hammered out
Numbers
one use
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,
- וַֽיְרַקְּע֖וּםvayrakeumHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and people beat out them
2 Samuel
one use
I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.
- אֶרְקָעֵֽם׃ʾerkaemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I beat out them
Job
one use
can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
- תַּרְקִ֣יעַtarkia'verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you spread out
Psalms
one use
He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.
- לְרֹקַ֣עleroka'preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to spread out
Isaiah
three uses
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
- יְרַקְּעֶ֑נּוּyerakkeenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will overlay it
This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
- רֹקַ֥עroka'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: spread out
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
- רֹקַ֥עroka'verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: spread out
Jeremiah
one use
Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
- מְרֻקָּ֞עmeruka'verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: beaten
Ezekiel
two uses
This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
- וּרְקַ֤עureka'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and stamp
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
- וְרַקְעֲךָ֖verakachaconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and stamping you
Where it leads
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 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.