Strong's #7554: raqa` (pronounced raw-kah')

a primitive root; to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal):--beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râqa‛

1) to beat, stamp, beat out, spread out, stretch

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to stamp, beat out

1a2) one who beats out (participle)

1b) (Piel) to overlay, beat out (for plating)

1c) (Pual) beaten out (participle)

1d) (Hiphil) to make a spreading (of clouds)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Exodus 39:3: " And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in"
Numbers 16:39: "wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:"
2 Samuel 22:43: "I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad."
Job 37:18: "Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?"
Psalms 136:6: " To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth forever."
Isaiah 40:19: "melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains."
Isaiah 42:5: "he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath"
Isaiah 44:24: "all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by"
Jeremiah 10:9: "Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz,"
Ezekiel 6:11: "GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for"
Ezekiel 25:6: "Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all"