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Strong’s H7549 · Hebrew

רָקִיעַ

râqîyaʻ · raw-kee'-ah

Origin from רָקַע (H7554);

Meaning properly, an expanse, i.e. the firmament or (apparently) visible arch of the sky

In the King James Version firmament.

In 15 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
  2. Genesis 1:7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
  3. Genesis 1:8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
  4. Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
  5. Genesis 1:15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
  6. Genesis 1:17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
  7. Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
  8. Psalms 19:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
  9. Psalms 150:1Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
  10. Ezekiel 1:22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
  11. Ezekiel 1:23And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
  12. Ezekiel 1:25And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
  13. Ezekiel 1:26And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
  14. Ezekiel 10:1Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
  15. Daniel 12:3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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