1. רָקַע
beat, stamp, beat out, spread out
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַֽיְרַקְּע֞וּ
raqa · vb
beat, stamp, beat out, spread out
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 11 · 0.36/10k
Senses
2. רָקַע
to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
Attestations
- וַֽ/יְרַקְּע֞וּ Exodus 39:3 (BHS)
- וַֽ/יְרַקְּע֖וּ/ם Numbers 17:4 (BHS)
- אֶרְקָעֵֽ/ם 2 Samuel 22:43 (BHS)
- יְרַקְּעֶ֑/נּוּ Isaiah 40:19 (BHS)
- רֹקַ֥ע Isaiah 42:5 (BHS)
- רֹקַ֥ע Isaiah 44:24 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.