Word

רַקָּה

raqqâh · H7541 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

temple

Either side of the human head between the forehead and the ear

Examples
Judges 4:21 But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.
Judges 4:22 And behold, while Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he entered with her, and behold, Sisera was lying dead with the tent peg in his temple.
Judges 5:26 “She reached out her hand for the tent peg, And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer. Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head; And she shattered and pierced his temple.
cheek

Either side of the human head

Examples
Song of Solomon 4:3 “Your lips are like a scarlet thread, And your mouth is beautiful. Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
Song of Solomon 6:7 “Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּhis 3
ךְyour 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

חָלַףto come up 1
מָחַץto strike 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

פֶּלַחmillstone, slice 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָתֵדpeg 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 3

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

People001001003: Judges 4:21-22 twice describes Jael driving a tent peg into Sisera's "temple," and Judges 5:26 and Song of Solomon 4:3, 6:7 likewise use this word of "temple(s)," directly attesting this as a part of a person's head.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רָקַק râqaq · H7556 · to spit · 1×רַק raq · H7535 · thin, fine, gaunt · 109×רָקִיק râqîyq · H7550 · wafer · 8×רַקָּהraqqâh · H7541רַק raq · H7534 · thin, fine, gaunt · 3×רֹק rôq · H7536 · spittle · 3×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7541. raqqah רַקָּה noun feminine the temple (of the head): Jdg 4:21 בְּרַקָּתוֺ…

H7541. raqqah
רַקָּה noun feminine the temple (of the head): Jdg 4:21 בְּרַקָּתוֺ הַיָּתֵד וַתִּתְקַע, Jdg 4:22; Jdg 5:26 רִקָּתוֺ וְחָֽלְפָה וּמָֽחְצָה, Son 4:3 = Son 6:7 רִקָּתֵךְ הָרִמּוֺן כְּפֶלַח.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

People5 occurrences

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