Meaning of raca | Babel Free

Definitions

idiot!, putz!

Ecclesiastical, Latin

Examples

“4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Matthew 5:22”

And whoever says to his brother, idiot!, shall be liable to answer to the council.

“397 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus (translator), Instituta Monachorum, question 145, original author: Basil of Caesarea, in Patrologia Latina (volume 103), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1851, column 538”

What is raca? The answer: A provincial, that is, a pagan word used for example as a mild insult, which is usually said to servants and to those who rely on you.

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