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Exodus 39:3
“And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7554 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.
- Grammar
- וַֽ — conjunction
- יְרַקְּע֞וּ — verb Piel, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 11 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 17:42 Samuel 22:43Job 37:18Psalms 136:6Isaiah 40:19
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read רָקַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.