Lexicon rhaka: empty (an expression of contempt) Original Word: ῥακάPart of Speech: Aramaic Transliterated Word (Indeclinable) Transliteration: rhaka Phonetic Spelling: (rhak-ah') Short Definition: empty, foolish Definition: empty, foolish. HELPS word-Studies 4469 rhaká (apparently related to the Aramaic term rōq, "empty") – properly, empty-headed. This term expressed contempt for a man's head, viewing him as stupid (without sense) – i.e. a "numbskull" who acts presumptuously and thoughtlessly (TDNT). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Aramaic origin reqamDefinitionempty (an expression of contempt) NASB Translationgood-for-nothing (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4469: ῤακάῤακά ( Tdf. ῤαχά; (the better accentuation seems to be ῤακά; cf. Kautzsch, Gram. d. Biblical-Aram., p. 8)), an Aramaic word רֵיקָא (but according to Kautzsch (as above), p. 10) not the stative emphatic of רֵיק, but shortened from רֵיקָן (Hebrew רִיק), empty, i. e. a senseless, empty-headed man, a term of reproach used by the Jews in the time of Christ ( B. D., under the word ; Wünsche, Erläuterung as above with, p. 47): Matthew 5:22. STRONGS NT 4469: ῤαχά [ῤαχά, see ῤακά.]
Strong's Raca. Of Chaldee origin (compare reyq); O empty one, i.e. Thou worthless (as a term of utter vilification) -- Raca. see HEBREW reyq |
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