Quick Definition
a piece of cloth
Strong's Definition
a "rag," i.e. piece of cloth
Derivation: from G4486 (ῥήγνυμι);
KJV Usage: cloth
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῤάκος, ῤάκους, τό (ῤήγνυμι, a piece torn off; specifically, a bit of cloth; cloth: Mat_9:16; Mar_2:21 (here L Tr marginal reading ῥακκος). (Homer, Herodotus, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Euripides, Josephus, the Sept., others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥάκος rhakos 2x
a piece torn off; a bit of cloth, cloth, Mat_9:16 ; Mar_2:21
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ῥάκος , -ους , τό ,
[in LXX : Isa_64:6 (5) ( H899 ), Jer_38:11 ( H5499 ), Ezr_4:17 * ;]
1. a ragged garment ( Hom .).
2. a rag, remnant, piece of cloth: Mat_9:16 , Mar_2:21 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ῥάκος [page 563]
a piece of cloth ( Mat_9:16 , Mar_2:21 ) : cf. P Petr III. 42 H (8) f .27 (mid. iii/B.C.) ῥάκος λεπτόν , P Oxy I. 117 .14 (ii/iii A.D.) ῥάκη δύο , P Lond 121 .208 (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 91) βύσσινον ῥάκος , ib . .359 (= p. 96) ῥάκος λινοῦν . See also Apoc. Petr. 15 ἄνδρες ῥάκη ῥυπαρὰ ἐνδεδύμενοι (cf. Jas_2:2 ). In Artem. p. 18 .8 the word is used of mummy wrappings οἱ ἀποθανόντες ἐσχισμένοις ἐνειλοῦνται ῥάκεσι .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ῥάκος ῥά^κος, ος, εος, τό, "a ragged garment, a rag", Od. , Ar. : in pl. ῥάκεα, attic ῥάκη, "rags, tatters", Od. , Hdt. , etc. generally, "a strip of cloth", Hdt. : "a strip" of flesh, Aesch. in pl. "rents in the face, wrinkles", Ar. metaph. "a rag, remnant", Anon. ap. Arist. ; of an old seaman, ἁλίοιο βίου ῥάκος Anth.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ῥάκος, -ους, τό
[in LXX: Isa.64:6 (5) (בֶּגֶד), Jer.38:11 (סְחָבָה), Est.4:17 * ;]
__1. a ragged garment (Hom.).
__2. a rag, remnant, piece of cloth: Mat.9:16, Mrk.2:21.†
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