רָקַק
râqaq · H7556 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to spit
Causative action by which humans eject saliva from their mouths with some force
ExamplesLeviticus 15:8 ‘Or if the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, he too shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זוּבto flow 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ טָהוֹרclean, pure 1
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- πτύω ptýō · G4429 · to spit
- The standard Greek verb for 'to spit,' used in the Gospels (e.g., Mark 7:33, 8:23, John 9:6) as the direct semantic equivalent of Hebrew רָקַק. Both denote the physical act of expelling saliva from the mouth.
- ἐμπτύω emptýō · G1716 · to spit (on)
- A compound form of πτύω with the prefix ἐν-, meaning 'to spit upon/at' (someone), used in contexts of contempt or mockery (e.g., Mark 14:65, 15:19). While more specific than the simple verb, it represents the same core action of spitting and serves as a valid cross-linguistic equivalent for the Hebrew spitting verb.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Flow002002001008
- Leviticus 15:8 describes "the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean," directly attesting the emission of bodily fluid this word denotes.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7556. raqaq II. [רָקַק] verb spit (Late Hebrew, Aramaic רְקַק, , all = Biblical Hebrew);…
II. [רָקַק] verb spit (Late Hebrew, Aramaic רְקַק, , all = Biblical Hebrew); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular יָרֹק Lev 15:8, with ב of person spit upon. — compare יָרִק.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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