ῥακά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- 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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥a.ká/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /raˈka/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /raˈka/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /raˈka/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /raˈka/
Noun
ῥακά • (rhaká) m (indeclinable)
- idiot, fool
Descendants
- → Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 (raka)
- → Latin: raca
- → Old Armenian: ռակայ (ṙakay), ռակկայ (ṙakkay), ռակա (ṙaka)
- → Old Georgian: რაკა (raḳa)
- → Old Church Slavonic: рака (raka)
- → Old East Slavic: рака (raka)
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.