Word Summary
rhakos: a rag
Original Word: ῥάκοςTransliteration: rhakos
Phonetic Spelling: (hrak'-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a rag
Meaning: a rag
Strong's Concordance
cloth.
From rhegnumi; a "rag," i.e. Piece of cloth -- cloth.
see GREEK rhegnumi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4470: ῤάκοςῤάκος,
ῤάκους,
τό (
ῤήγνυμι,
a piece torn off; specifically,
a bit of cloth; cloth:
Matthew 9:16;
Mark 2:21 (here
L Tr marginal reading
ῥακκος). (
Homer,
Herodotus,
Aristophanes,
Sophocles,
Euripides,
Josephus, the
Sept., others.)