raka

Strong’sG4469

empty, foolish

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

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* 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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Transliteration of Hebrew רֵיק 'worthless' [H7386]. Not in LSJ.

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

raca1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

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

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

rakem — ῥάκος, a piece of cloth

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

raka“raca”direct addressvocative singular1×

Matthew 5:22… de an legateia to adelfo autou; Raka, enochos eti te sunedrie; hos de …… anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin …