Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Worthless; naught: a transliterated word occurring in Mat. v. 22, common among the Jews in Christ's time as an expression of contempt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning “worthless.”
Examples
“Fool" translates an ever stronger term of abuse than "raca" - implying that a per - son has lost all moral and religious sense, to the point of apostasy.”
“Fool" translates an ever stronger term of abuse than "raca" -- implying that a person has lost all moral and religious sense, to the point of apostasy.”
“His use of "raca" and "moreh" for reviling, shows their meaning was not lost upon him.”
“How shall a man say "raca," or "that fox," if there be no equivalents for the words in barbarous languages?”
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“Is it akin to "raca", meaning worthless, or "fool", in danger of the fires of Gehenna?”
“raca," or "that fox," if there be no equivalents for the words in barbarous languages?”
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘raca’ an Aramaic term of contempt, is answerable to the Sanhedrin.”
Simon & Schuster: God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
“And so on with hell unquenchable fire, wailing and gnashing of teeth, etc., unpardonable sin, raca, "I did not come to bring peace, but a sword", eye-plucking, and so on.”
“It is forbidden to call our brother “raca,” under the penalty of the gehenna or hell fire.”
“Reacoes de dez especies de plantas, algumas produtoras de oleos essenciais, em relacao ao parasitismo de Meloidogyne incognita raca 1 e M. javanica, em populacao mista.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raca’.
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September Words-10031
During the month of September, post at least 10 new words to this list. Make sure you cite where you read the word (book/author/pg) and quote the context/sentence where you found it. If someone has...
pseudonym, Cacophony, Cannabis, Bogus, Soulless, via, celestial, Liquor, dwarf, Wretched, Gemini, quartz and 53 more...
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September Words-11849
During the month of September, post at least 10 new words to this list. Make sure you cite where you read the word (book/author/pg) and quote the context/sentence where you found it. If someone has...
psilocybin, raca, schema, myriad, copacetic, chastise, fractal, tourniquet, turncoat, vicarious, surreptitiously, clandestine and 34 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
Tweets
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