רָקַעrâqaʻ
beat, stamp, beat out, spread out
Pronunciation: raw-kah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7554
Meanings
Qal: I will stamp them down, beat (2 Samuel 22:43; Ezekiel 6:11; Ezekiel 25:6)
Pi`el: with gold over-layeth it, beateth it out (Isaiah 40:19; Exodus 39:3; Numbers 17:4)
Pu`al: silver beaten out. (Jeremiah 10:9)
Hiph`il: canst thou make with, him a spreading for clouds (Job 37:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 39:3 He made gold thread by hammering out thin sheets of gold and cutting it into fine strands. With great skill and care, he worked it into the fine linen with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
- Numbers 16:39 So Eleazar the priest collected the 250 bronze incense burners that had been used by the men who died in the fire, and the bronze was hammered into a thin sheet to overlay the altar.
- 2 Samuel 22:43 I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trampled them in the gutter like dirt.
- Job 37:18 he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. Can you do that?
- Psalms 136:6 Give thanks to him who placed the earth among the waters. His faithful love endures forever.
- Isaiah 40:19 Can he be compared to an idol formed in a mold, overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains?
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).