Strong's #7535: raq (pronounced rak)
the same as 7534 as a noun; properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although:--but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, so (that), surely, yet (so), in any wise.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
raq
1) only, altogether, surely
1a) only
1b) only, nought but, altogether (in limitation)
1c) save, except (after a negative)
1d) only, altogether, surely (with an affirmative)
1e) if only, provided only (prefixed for emphasis)
1f) only, exclusively (for emphasis)
Part of Speech: adverb (with restrictive force)
Relation: the same as H7534 as a noun
Usage:
This word is used 107 times:
Job 1:19: "upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell"
Psalms 32:6: "unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not"
Psalms 91:8: " Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked."
Proverbs 13:10: " Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom."
Isaiah 4:1: "our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
Isaiah 28:19: "by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report."
Amos 3:2: " You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore"
