noun · masculine

raka

Greekῥακά (raka)

Strong’sG4469

empty, foolish

stem rak-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

raca1×

What it means

* ῥακά (T, ῥαχά),

usually taken to represent the Aram. רֵיקָא, a shortened form of רֵיקָן, "empty," as vocalized in the Galilæan dialect; an expression of contempt, raca: Mt 5:22 (cf. DB, iv, 191 f.; and for other explanations, v. Zorell, s.v.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4469 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidrhak-ah'

O empty one, i.e. thou worthless (as a term of utter vilification)

Fromof Chaldee origin (compare );

King JamesRaca.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	raka	raka
object accusative	raka	raka
direct address vocative	raka1×Ῥακά	raka
of, belonging to genitive	raka	raka
to, for dative	raka	raka

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

rakastem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

rakem — ῥάκος, a piece of cloth

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

raka“raca”direct addressvocative singular1×

Matthew 5:22“raca”mis de legamō vi hoti pantos tos orgizerōtos to adelfo autou enochos eti ta krisia; hos de an legateia to adelfo autou; Raka, enochos eti te sunedrie; hos de an legateia; Mōror, enochos eti eis tan geennan teu pureu.But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.