רַקָּה
raka · temple (of the head)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7541 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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raka (רַקָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “temple (of the head)”.
Temple: the side of the head, the thin part between the eye and the ear.
How to say it
ra·ka
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The side of the head by the eye.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Judges 4:21
But Jael the wife of Heber took the peg of the tent and put the hammer in her hand, and she came to him quietly and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; he was fast asleep and exhausted, and he died.
- Judges 4:22
And look, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” He went in with her, and there was Sisera, fallen dead, with the peg in his temple.
- Judges 5:26
Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.
- Song of Songs 4:3
Like a thread of scarlet are your lips, and your speech is lovely; like a slice of pomegranate is your temple behind your veil.
- Song of Songs 6:7
Like a slice of pomegranate is your temple behind your veil.