רִקּוּעַ
expansion
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7555 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
רקע — transliterated riqquaʻ — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “expansion.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Numbers. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Numbers 16:38. Related forms include רקע and רקיע. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7555 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Broad 1×
- American Standard Version: Beaten 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hammer them into 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hammered sheets of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7555 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- expansion (of plates)
Word origin
[ רִקּוּעַ ] n.[m.] expansion;—pl. cstr. Nu 17:3
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רקע (râqaʻ) (H7554) — to beat out.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רָקַע
- (b. h.) [to beat,] to stretch, spread.
- 1. same. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXLVI, 5 משמתחתי … והִרְקַעְתִּי הארץ וכ׳ since I stretched the heaven and spread the land (over the water), have they ever moved from their position?
- 2. (in enigmatic speech, denom. of רָקִיעַ) to make to look blue. Erub. 53ᵇ הַרְקִיעוּ Ms. M. (ed. אַרְקִיעוּ), v. זָהָב; [Rashi: spread the glowing coals].—[Tosef. B. Bath. XI, 9 שהרקיע ed. Zuck., read: שהִרְקִיב.]
רְקַע
- Af. אַרְקַע same. Targ. Job XXXVII, 18 תַּרְקַע (ed. Wil. תִּרְ׳).
- to patch.—Part. pass. מְרַקַּע. Targ. Josh. IX, 5 ed. Wil. מְרַקְּעִין (Ar. מְרַקְּעָן; ed. Lag. מרקיעין, corr. acc.; some ed. מְרוּקָּעִין Hebraism; h. text מטלאות).—V. מַרְקוֹעַ II.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
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