Temple
רַקָּהStrong’s H7541raqqah (raq-qah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raqqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “temple his” and “temple your”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Temple, the temple (of the head)
How it's translated
- in temple his 2
- temple your 2
- temple his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 3
- Song of Solomon 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 4:22And, 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.
- Judges 5:26She 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.
- Song of Solomon 4:3Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
- Song of Solomon 6:7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Hebrew dictionary
רַקָּה raqqah · temple
temple, the temple (of the head)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “temple” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEM'PLE, noun
[Latin templum.]
- A public edifice erected in honor of some deity.
- A church; an edifice erected among christians as a place of public worship.
- A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21
- In England, the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars.
All definitions and other forms of “temple”
TEM'PLE, noun
[Latin tempus, tempora. The primary sense of the root of this word is to fall. See Time.]
- Literally, the fall of the head; the part where the head slopes from the top.
- In anatomy, the anterior and lateral part of the head, where the skull is covered by the temporal muscles.
TEM'PLE, verb transitive
To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.