# רָקַע (raqa)

Israeli respelling: ra-qa. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7554. 11 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/raqa-h7554

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 39:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/39/3) — And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in t…
- [Numbers 16:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/39) — And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering…
- [2 Samuel 22:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/43) — Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
- [Job 37:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/18) — Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
- [Psalms 136:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/136/6) — To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- [Isaiah 40:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/19) — The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
- [Isaiah 42:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/5) — Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of…
- [Isaiah 44:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/24) — Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the h…
- [Jeremiah 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/9) — Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and…
- [Ezekiel 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/11) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel…
- [Ezekiel 25:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/6) — For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite a…