H7541 רַקָּה (raqqâh) rak-kaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

temple

Strong's Definition

properly, thinness, i.e. the side of the head

Derivation: feminine of H7534 (רַק);

KJV Usage: temple.

TWOT Reference: 2218c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) temple, the temple (of the head)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

רַקָּה (raq.qah) — temple. temple, the temple (of the head)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

רַקָּה (H7541)

noun f

People

temple = either side of the human head between the forehead and the ear

JDG 4:21 · JDG 4:22 · JDG 5:26

People

cheek = either side of the human head

SNG 4:3 · SNG 6:7

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

רַקָּה n.f. the temple (of the head) base

Bible Occurrences (3)

4:21 4:22 5:26

Judges 4:21

But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer..., and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple [and] into the ground, and he died.

Judges 4:22

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking. So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.

Judges 5:26

She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.