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The meaning of רַקָּה

Understanding raqqâh reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.

Definition

feminine of רַק temple. - properly, thinness, i.e. the side of the head 1) temple, the temple (of the head)

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רַקָּה

Phoneticrak-kaw'
Transliterationraqqâh
Grammar Code
H:N-F
Hebrew Noun, Feminine
Strong's Definition
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

feminine of רַק temple. - properly, thinness, i.e. the side of the head 1) temple, the temple (of the head)

Scripture References

Occurrences in the Bible

5 total references
ReferenceText
Judges 4:21

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

Word: רַקָּה (raqqâh)
Judges 4:22

And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

Word: רַקָּה (raqqâh)
Judges 5:26

She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

Word: רַקָּה (raqqâh)
Song of Solomon 4:3

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

Word: רַקָּה (raqqâh)
Song of Solomon 6:7

As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

Word: רַקָּה (raqqâh)

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