Know the Word.

Hebrew word

râqaʻ

raw-kah'

רָקַע

What it means

to pound the earth

to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)

Where it comes from

a primitive root

How the King James translates it

  • abroad2
  • beat1
  • broad1
  • spread1
  • stretched1
  • spreadeth1
  • forth1
  • plates1

Every place it appears 11

Exodus39:3
Numbers16:39
2 Samuel22:43
Psalms136:6
Jeremiah10:9
Ezekiel6:1125:6
râqaʻ — Hebrew word meaning “to pound the earth”