Quick Definition
to beat
Strong's Definition
to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.
TWOT Reference: 2217
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רָקַע (ra.qa) — to beat. 1) to beat, stamp, beat out, spread out, stretch 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stamp, beat out 1a2) one who beats out (participle) 1b) (Piel) to overlay, beat out (for plating) 1c) (Pual) beaten out (participle) 1d) (Hiphil) to make a spreading (of clouds)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · רָקִיעַ · רִקֻּעַ
Impact | verb qal
to stamp = action by which humans bring down their foot with force on the ground or an object
Impact | verb qal | ≈ מכא יָד · נכה בְּכַף
Collocation: רקע בְּרֶגֶל
to stamp (one's) feet literally: to stamp with (one's) foot; hence: = action by which humans bring down their foot with force on the ground or an object ► as an expression of deep emotion
Shape | verb pi, verb pu'al
to beat out, to hammer out literally: to stamp; hence: = causative action by which a craftsman uses a hammer to beat a piece of metal into the shape of flat sheets
Cover | verb pi
to overlay literally: to hammer out; hence: = causative action by which a craftsman covers an object with a layer of hammered out metal
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[רָקַע] vb. beat, stamp, beat out, spread out Qal I will stamp them down
Pi. a goldsmith with gold overlayeth it
Pu. silver beaten out.
Hiph. canst thou make with (= like) him a spreading for clouds
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