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Ancient Greek
- ῥαχά (rhakhá) — in one manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew
- ῥαχᾶς (rhakhâs) — in one 3rd century BC papyrus
Etymology
Borrowed from Aramaic ריקה, ריקא (rēqā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥a.ká/ → /raˈka/ → /raˈka/
Noun
ῥακά • (rhaká) m (indeclinable)
- idiot, fool, blockhead, good-for-nothing
Descendants
Further reading
- “ῥακά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥακά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥακά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4469 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “ῥακά”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 967a
- Moulton, James Hope, Milligan, George (1914–1929) “ῥακά”, in The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. Illustrated from the Papyri and other Non-Literary Sources, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 562b
- France R. T. (2007) The Gospel of Matthew, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, page 953.