רָקַע (rāqaʿ) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning beat. It appears
11 times
in 8 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H7554).
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2217)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2217)beat, stamp, beat out, spread out; with gold overlayeth it; silver beaten out; pound, expand, overlay; make broad, spread abroad, stretch
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
רָקַעverb: beat, stamp, beat out, spread out
Piela goldsmith with gold overlayeth it
Pualsilver beaten out.
Strong's H7554רָקַע: to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal) KJV:beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.