Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7541
רַקָּה
raq.qah · “temple”
Used 5 times across 2 books
Definition
temple, the temple (of the head)
Where it appears
Judges3
Song of Solomon2
In the text
Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.Judges 4:22And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.Judges 5:26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.Song of Solomon 4:3Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.Song of Solomon 6:7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
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