raka · beat out

What it means

raka (רָקַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beat out”.

Beat a metal with blows to spread it into sheets; spread out; also stamp the feet.

How to say it

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

1. To pound metal until thin.
2. To lay out, like the earth or clouds.
3. To stamp the ground with the foot, as a gesture of grief or victory.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stamped ×2
• who spreads out ×2
• beaten flat ×1
• him who spread out ×1
• overlays it ×1
• stamp ×1
• they hammered out ×1
• they hammered them ×1
• will you spread out ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Exodus 39:3

  And they hammered out the sheets of gold, and he cut them into threads to work them into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the fine linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Numbers 16:39

  So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that those who were burned had presented, and they hammered them into a covering for the altar,

• 2 Samuel 22:43

  I ground them like the dust of the earth; like the mud of the streets I crushed them, I stamped them down.

• Job 37:18

  will you spread out with him the clouds, strong like a mirror of cast metal?

• Psalms 136:6

  to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his loyal love is forever.

• Isaiah 40:19

  The carved image? A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and chains of silver the goldsmith casts.

• Isaiah 42:5

  Thus says El, YHWH, who creates the heavens and stretches them out, who spreads out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

• Isaiah 44:24

  Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb: “I am YHWH, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads out the earth by myself;

• Jeremiah 10:9

  Silver beaten flat is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; blue and purple is their clothing, the work of wise men all of them.

• Ezekiel 6:11

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: “Strike with your palm and stamp with your foot, and say, ‘Ah!’ over all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, who by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence will fall.

• Ezekiel 25:6

  For thus says Adonai YHWH: Because you clapped your hand and stamped with your foot and rejoiced with all your contempt of soul against the ground of Israel,