rakia · vault

What it means

rakia (רָקִיעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vault”.

Something spread out and firm, like a sheet of metal beaten with a hammer. It is the "vault" of the heavens: what is seen above, like a roof spread over the earth, which God set to separate the waters below from the waters above; God called it "heavens".

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. The sky stretched above, separating the waters.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Psalms×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Daniel×1

• Genesis 1:6

  And Elohim said, “Let there be a vault in the middle of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

• Genesis 1:7

  And Elohim made the vault and separated the waters that were under the vault from the waters that were above the vault. And it was so.

• Genesis 1:8

  And Elohim called the vault “Heavens.” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

• Genesis 1:14

  And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;

• Genesis 1:15

  and let them be lights in the vault of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

• Genesis 1:17

  And Elohim set them in the vault of the heavens to give light on the earth,

• Genesis 1:20

  And Elohim said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the vault of the heavens.”

• Psalms 19:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. The heavens recount the glory of El, and the vault proclaims the work of his hands.

• Psalms 150:1

  Praise Yah. Praise El in his sanctuary; praise him in the vault of his strength.

• Ezekiel 1:22

  And over the heads of the living creature there was the likeness of a vault, like the gleam of fearsome frost, spread out over their heads above.

• Ezekiel 1:23

  And under the vault their wings were straight, one toward the other; each had two covering them, and each had two covering them— their bodies.

• Ezekiel 1:25

  And there was a voice from above the vault that was over their heads; when they stood still, they let down their wings.

• Ezekiel 1:26

  And above the vault that was over their heads, like the appearance of a sapphire stone, was the likeness of a throne; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness like the appearance of a human being on it, above.

• Ezekiel 10:1

  And I looked, and look, on the vault that was over the head of the cherubim, like a sapphire stone, like the appearance of the likeness of a throne, something appeared above them.

• Daniel 12:3

  And the insightful will shine like the brightness of the vault, and those who make the many righteous, like the stars forever and ever.

And 2 more times.