Lexical Summary rhaka: empty (an expression of contempt) Original Word: ῥακάTransliteration: rhaka Phonetic Spelling: (rhak-ah') Part of Speech: Aramaic Transliterated Word (Indeclinable) Short Definition: empty (an expression of contempt) Meaning: empty (an expression of contempt) Strong's Concordance Raca. Of Chaldee origin (compare reyq); O empty one, i.e. Thou worthless (as a term of utter vilification) -- Raca. see HEBREW reyq Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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 STRONGS NT 4469: ῤαχά [ῤαχά, see ῤακά.] |
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