רָקִיעַ H7549

Home gloss: hammered sheet
Instead of (KJV / RSV): firmament / dome
Note: רקע is to beat metal thin (Exod 39:3, gold leaf; Num 17:4 [Eng 16:39], plating for the altar; Isa 40:19) or to stamp (Ezek 6:11); Job 37:18 has the skies "hard as a cast mirror." "Beaten" is reserved for מִקְשָׁה "beaten work" (Exod 25:18), so the two stay apart
Rulings: 2, 39

Occurrences (7)

1:6 And Elohim said, "Let a hammered sheet be in the middle of the waters, and let it be distinguishing between waters to waters."
1:7 And Elohim made the hammered sheet, and distinguished between the waters that were under the hammered sheet and between the waters that were above the hammered sheet. And it was thus.
1:8 And Elohim called to the hammered sheet, "Skies." And evening was, and morning was: a second day.
1:14 And Elohim said, "Let light-givers be in the hammered sheet of the skies, to distinguish between the day and between the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed feasts, and for days and years;
1:15 and let them be for light-givers in the hammered sheet of the skies, to give light on the land." And it was thus.
1:17 And Elohim gave them in the hammered sheet of the skies, to give light on the land,
1:20 And Elohim said, "Let the waters swarm a swarm of living soul, and let flyers fly over the land, on the face of the hammered sheet of the skies."