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רקה   n.f.  alluvial ground


  raised alluvial ground of a river  Qumran, JBA, Man.

Textual editions of JBA and LJLA show confusion between this word and דקה. See AIOA 88. The precise meaning in Akkadian is uncertain, but it hardly means "swamp" here.
  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJBA: 1094b; Jastrow: 1498; DNWSI: 1082;

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