רקיע

From the root ר־ק־ע (r-q-`).

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /raːˈqiːʕ/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /rɔːˈqiːʕ/ [ʀɔːˈqiː.aʕ], [ʀɔːˈqiː.jaʕ], [ʀɔːˈqij.jaʕ], [ʀɔːˈqiɟ.ɟaʕ]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /rɔˈqiʕ/ [rɔːˈɡiː.jæʕ], [rɔːˈɡij.jæʕ] (Sanaani), [rɔːˈqiː.jæʕ], [rɔːˈqij.jæʕ] (Sharaabi)
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /rɒˈɢij.jæ/ [rɒˈʁij.jæ]
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /raˈki.aŋ/ (West), /raˈqij.jaʕ/ (East)
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /rɔˈki.a(ŋ)/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /raˈki.a(ʕ)/

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רָקִיעַ • (rakía') m (plural indefinite רְקִיעִים, singular construct רְקִיעַ־) [pattern: קָטִיל]

1. Firmament, sky, heavens: the concave surface on which the heavenly bodies appear to move.
   • Tanach, Genesis 1:14, with translation of the King James Version:

     […] יְהִי מְאֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם לְהַבְדִּיל בֵּין הַיּוֹם וּבֵין הַלָּיְלָה […]

     […] y'hí m'orót bir'kía' hashamáyim l'havdíl bein hayóm uvéin haláyla […]

     […] Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; […]

2. (mythology) Firmament: a surface separating the various levels of heaven.
   • Tanach, Ezekiel 1:26, with translation of the King James Version:

     וּמִמַּעַל לָרָקִיעַ אֲשֶׁר עַל־רֹאשָׁם כְּמַרְאֵה אֶבֶן־סַפִּיר דְּמוּת כִּסֵּא […]

     umimá'al larakía' ashér al-roshám k'mar'é éven-sapír d'mút kisé […]

     And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: […]

• קו רקיע (káv-rakía)

• H7549 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “רָקִיעַ”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 629a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1496b