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To beat

רָקַעStrong’s H7554

raqa (ra-qa)

Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Raqa is the Hebrew word usually translated “spread out”, “hammered out” and “people beat out them”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

“And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.”
Exodus 39:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. To beat, stamp, beat out, spread out, stretch(Qal) · (Piel) to overlay, beat out (for plating) · (Pual) beaten out (participle) · (Hiphil) to make a spreading (of clouds)
How it's translated
  • spread out 2
  • and they hammered out 1
  • and people beat out them 1
  • i beat out them 1
  • will you spread out 1
  • to spread out 1
  • he will overlay it 1
  • beaten 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 3
  • Ezekiel 2
  • Exodus 1
  • Numbers 1
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • Job 1

8 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 11 verses, by book
Exodus 1
39:3
Numbers 1
16:39
2 Samuel 1
22:43
Job 1
37:18
Psalms 1
136:6
Jeremiah 1
10:9
Ezekiel 2
6:1125:6
Hebrew dictionary

רָקַע raqa · 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)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “beat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BEAT, verb transitive

preterit tense beat; participle passive beat beaten. [Latin batuo. See Abate.]

  1. To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12:45Deuteronomy 25:3
  2. To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.
  3. To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36
  4. To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance; or to hammer into any form; to forge. Exodus 39:3
All definitions and other forms of “beat”
  1. To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
  2. To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.
  3. To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
  4. To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.
  5. To tread, as a path.
  6. To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.
  7. To harass; to exercise severely; to overlabor; as, to beat the brains about logic.

BEAT, verb intransitive

To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats; or to throb, as the heart beats.

  1. To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.
  2. To knock at a door. Judges 19:22
  3. To fluctuate; to be in agitation.

BEAT, noun

A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.

  1. A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.
  2. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
  3. A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.

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.