Strong's Concordance
Original word: רָקַע
Transliteration: raqa
Definition (short): spread
Definition (full): to pound the earth, to expand, to overlay
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to beat, stamp, beat out, spread out
NASB Translation: beaten (1), hammered (2), plates (1), spread (3), spreading (1), stamp (1), stamped (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal) -- beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch.
References
KJV:
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
NASB:
Then they hammered out gold sheets and cut them into threads to be woven in with the blue and the purple and the scarlet material, and the fine linen, the work of a skillful workman.
KJV:
And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
NASB:
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had offered, and they hammered them out as a plating for the altar,
KJV:
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
NASB:
"Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.