Strong H7541רַקָּה

temple

Transliteration
raqqâh
Pronunciation
rak-kaw'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

Feminine of H7534; properly {thinness} that {is} the side of the head: - temple.

Detailed definition

temple, the temple (of the head)

In the Bible

Strong H7541 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • temple5

First verses

  1. Judges 4:21
    Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
  2. Judges 4:22
    And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
  3. Judges 5:26
    She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
  4. Song of Songs 4:3
    Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
  5. Song of Songs 6:7
    As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
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