ῥάκος
rhákos · G4470 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Thing
- PatchCloth manufacture4 verses
Meanings
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patch
A piece of cloth sewed on clothing to repair a hole or tear
ExamplesMatthew 9:16 “But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.
Mark 2:21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄγναφοςunshrunken 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίβλημαpatch 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐπίβλημα epíblēma · G1915 · patch
- ἐπίβλημα means 'patch' or 'piece sewn on' and appears in the same synoptic pericopes (Mt 9:16; Mk 2:21; Lk 5:36) alongside ῥάκος, where ῥάκος describes the raw piece of cloth and ἐπίβλημα describes it as a patch. These are functionally near-synonyms in the 'patch' semantic domain.
In the other Testament 1 word
- קֶרַע qeraʻ · H7168 · torn pieces of cloth, rags
- Hebrew qera' denotes a torn piece or rag, semantically very close to ῥάκος as a piece of cloth, particularly one that has been torn. This would be a more precise equivalent than the broader beged.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Patch6.152
- The noun names a piece of cloth used as a patch. Jesus teaches, “No one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results” (Matthew 9:16), the underlying term for the unshrunk cloth being this word.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ῤάκους, τό (ῤήγνυμι, a piece torn off; specifically, a bit of cloth; cloth: Mt 9:16; Mk…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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