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H7549 H7549
N-ms  |  17× in 1 sense
expanse, firmament, sky-vault
1. expanse, firmament, sky-vault The raqia, the expanse or vault of the sky created by God in Genesis 1 and referenced in Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Psalms. All four clusters denote the same cosmological concept with only grammatical variation (construct chains, articles, prepositions, bare noun). Multilingual glosses confirm uniform meaning: English 'expanse/firmament', Spanish 'expansion/firmamento', Hindi 'thoss-vistar/akashmandal' (solid-expanse/sky-sphere), Arabic 'jalad/falak' (firmament/celestial sphere), Korean 'gungchang/changkong' (vault/firmament), Swahili 'anga' (sky/firmament) uniformly across all 17 occurrences. 17×
GEOGRAPHY_SPACE Geographical Objects and Features Heaven and Sky
AR["الـ-فَلَكِ","الْجَلَدَ","الْجَلَدِ","الْفَلَكُ","جَلَدٌ","جَلَدِ","فَلَكٌ","فِي-جَلَدِ","لِـ-الفَلَكِ"]·ben["-আকাশমণ্ডল","-আকাশমণ্ডলের","-বিস্তারের","আকাশ","আকাশকে","আকাশমণ্ডল","আকাশে","আকাশের","বিস্তার","বিস্তৃতিতে"]·DE["[הרקיע]","[לרקיע]","[רקיע]","an-der-Feste","an-die-Feste","der-Ausdehnung","der-Feste","die-Feste","eine-Feste","in-Ausdehnung-von"]·EN["expanse","expanse-of","in-expanse-of","the-expanse","the-firmament","to-the-expanse"]·FR["dans-firmament","dans-étendue-de","firmament","le-firmament","le-étendue","à-le-étendue","étendue","étendue-de"]·heb["ב-רקיע","ה-רקיע","ל-ה-רקיע","ל-רקיע","רקיע"]·HI["अंतरिक्ष","आकाश-में","आकाशमंडल","आकाशमण्डल-की","के-ठोस-विस्तार","को-आकाशमंडल","को-ठोस-विस्तार","ठोस-विस्तार","ते-आकाशमंडल","में-ठोस-विस्तार"]·ID["cakrawala","cakrawala-itu","di-cakrawala"]·IT["[ברקיע]","[הרקיע]","[לרקיע]","[רקיע]","a-il-expanse","expanse","expanse-di","il-expanse","in-expanse-di"]·jav["cakrawala","cakrawala-punika","dhateng-cakrawala","ing-cakrawala","langit","saking-cakrawala"]·KO["궁창","궁창-이","그-궁창","그-궁창에","그-궁창의","그-창공","그-창공으로","에-궁창","에-그-궁창","에-창공에서","창공의"]·PT["ao-firmamento","firmamento","firmamento-de","no-firmamento","no-firmamento-de","o-firmamento","para-o-firmamento"]·RU["-твердь","-твердью","в-тверди","небес-тех","свод","своде","сводом","тверди","твердь"]·ES["a-la-expansión","del-firmamento","el-firmamento","en-expansión-de","en-firmamento-de","expansión","expansión-de","firmamento","la-expansión"]·SW["anga","anga-","anga-la","katika-anga","katika-anga-la","kwa-anga","wa-anga"]·TR["-gök-kubbe","-kubbeti","-kubbetin","ha-kubbenin","kubbenin","kubbesi","kubbesinde-","kubbesine-","kubbet"]·urd["آسمان-کی","بِ-فلک","فضا","فضا-کے","فلک","فلک-میں","فلک-کو","فلک-کے"]

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BDB / Lexicon Reference
רָקִיעַ n.m. Gn 1:6 extended surface, (solid) expanse (as if beaten out; cf. Jb 37:18);—abs. ר׳ Ez 1:22 +, cstr. רְ׳ Gn 1:14 +;—𝔊 στερέωμα, 𝔙 firmamentum, cf. Syriac sub √ supr.;— 1. (flat) expanse (as if of ice, cf. כְּעֵין הַקֶרַח), as base, support (WklAltor. Forsch. iv. 347) Ez 1:22, 23, 25 (gloss? cf. Co Toy), v 26 (supporting י׳’sthrone) 10:1. Hence (Co Ez 1:22) 2. the vault of heaven,