noun · neuter
rakem
Strong’sG4470
a piece of cloth
stem rak-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
ῥάκος, -ους, τό
[in LXX: Is 64:6 (5) (בֶּגֶד), Je 45 (38):11 (סְחָבָה), Es 4:17 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4470 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhrak'-os
a "rag," i.e. piece of cloth
Fromfrom G4486;
King Jamescloth.
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
ragged, tattered garment, δὸς ῥ. ἀμφιβαλέσθαι Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀνθ᾽ ἱματίου μὲν ἔχειν ῥ. Refs 5th c.BC+ frequently in plural ῥάκεα, _Attic dialect_ ῥάκη, rags, tatters, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 generally, strip of cloth, ῥάκεα φοινίκεα NT+5th c.BC+: even a strip of flesh, σώματος ῥ. Refs 4th c.BC+
3 collectively, rag, lint, Refs 5th c.BC+
II in plural also, rents in the face, wrinkles, Refs 5th c.BC+
III metaphorically, rag, remnant, εἰκάσαι τὸ ἐρείπιον ῥάκει οἰκίας Refs 4th c.BC+; of an old seaman, ἁλίοιο βίου ῥ. Refs 1st c.BC+ —The _Aeolic dialect_ form βράκος (which see), used of a garment, lacks the sense 'ragged'.
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.
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 or object direct | rakem | rakeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | rakeu2×ῥάκους | rakeiu |
| to, for dative | rake | rakei |
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
rake is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
rakeu“cloth”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 9:16oudenos de epibalatō epiblēmem rakeu agnafeu epi himatie palaie; airatō gar …… one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the …
Mark 2:21Oudenos epiblēmem rakeu agnafeu epiraptatō epi himatiem palaiem; ei …… one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he …