רָקַע râqaʻ

Meaning

to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal)

In the King James Version: beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Exodus 39:3 They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman.
• Numbers 16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,
• 2 Samuel 22:43 I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.
• Job 37:18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?
• Psalms 136:6 He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Isaiah 40:19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
• Isaiah 42:5 This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
• Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
• Jeremiah 10:9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz—the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.
• Ezekiel 6:11 This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
• Ezekiel 25:6 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,