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

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥a.ká/ → /raˈka/ → /raˈka/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥a.ká/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /raˈka/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raˈka/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /raˈka/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /raˈka/

Noun

ῥακά • (rhaká) m (indeclinable)

1. idiot, fool, blockhead, good-for-nothing

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^[1], Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, page 953.