Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4794
מְרוּצָה
merutsahmer-oo-tsaw'
running
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉrûwtsâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4794is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4794
a race (the act), whether the manner or the progress
The King James renders it: course, running. Compare H4835 (מְרֻצָה).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
merutsah is rendered "running". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 18:27The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
2 Samuel 18:27מְרוּצַ֣ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- course their1
- in own course their1
- like running of1
- running of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְרוֹחַ | meroach | crushed | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּמְר֣וּצָתָ֔ם1
- כִּמְרֻצַ֖ת1
- מְרוּצַ֣ת1
- מְרֽוּצָתָם֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
2 Samuel
two uses
The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
- מְרוּצַ֣תmerutzatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: running of
- כִּמְרֻצַ֖תkimrutzatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like running of
Jeremiah
two uses
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
- בִּמְר֣וּצָתָ֔םbimrutzotampreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: in own course their
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
- מְרֽוּצָתָם֙merutzatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: course their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.