H7554 רָקַע
râqaʻ — to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
KJV: beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.
Occurs 11 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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
Where it occurs
- Exodus 39:3 — They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and…
- Numbers 17:4 — Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a…
- 2 Samuel 22:43 — Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
- Isaiah 40:19 — A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
- Isaiah 42:5 — God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out…
- Isaiah 44:24 — The LORD, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am the LORD, who makes all things; who alone…
- Jeremiah 10:9 — There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and…
- Ezekiel 6:11 — “The Lord GOD says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!”, because of all the evil…
- Ezekiel 25:6 — For the Lord GOD says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt…
- Psalms 136:6 — to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his loving kindness endures forever;