RACA
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| Biblical noun | 1. | Term of derision or disrespect (3 Nephi 12:22 = Matthew 5:22) |
Etymology
The Biblical noun of disrespect RACA, meaning "fool, empty-head," and mentioned in Matthew 5:22, is used again in the risen Lord's sermon to the NEPHITES in 3 Nephi 12:22. The English word RACA is from the Greek raká, itself from the Aramaic rêqā, "empty-head, fool, numbskull; good for nothing, worthless man"[1] = Greek kenós = Latin vaccus[2]; cf. Hebrew rêq, "empty; vain, frivolous (in a negative sense; cf. Judges 9:4; 2 Chronicles 13:7)."
Variants
Deseret Alphabet: 𐐡𐐁𐐗𐐂 (reɪkɑ)
Notes
- ↑ Marcus Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yeushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (New York: Judaica Press, 1996), 1476.
- ↑ William Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich, Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament and Other early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 741.
