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Hebrew verb · H7533

רָצַץ

ratsatsraw-tsats'

to crush

19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: râtsats

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7533is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7533

to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively

The King James renders it: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.

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

ratsats is rendered "to crush". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:22But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

Genesis 25:22וַיִּתְרֹֽצֲצ֤וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • crushed2
  • the crushed2
  • and crushed1
  • and he crushed1
  • and it crushed1
  • and it will be crushed1
  • and they crushed1
  • and they struggled together1
  • crushed of1
  • have I crushed1
  • he has crushed1
  • he will be crushed1

and 5 more, 19 uses in all

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.

רָצַחratsachto murderUses47
רָצַדratsadto watch with envyUses1
רָצַעratsato boreUses1
רָצַףratsaphto fitUses1

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 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

  • הָרָצ֤וּץ2
  • הָרֹצְצ֖וֹת1
  • וַיְרַצֵּ֥ץ1
  • וַיְרֹֽצְצוּ֙1
  • וַיִּתְרֹֽצֲצ֤וּ1
  • וְנָרֹ֥ץ1
  • וְרָצ֖וּץ1
  • וְתָרֻ֖ץ1
  • וַתָּ֖רִץ1
  • יָר֔וּץ1
  • רְצ֣וּץ1
  • רָצוּץ֙1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular2HTd/Vqsmsa
  • Hc/Vhw3fs1Hc/Vhw3fs
  • Hc/VNq3ms1Hc/VNq3ms
  • Hc/Vpw3mp1Hc/Vpw3mp
  • Hc/Vpw3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqsmsa
  • HC/Vqu3fs1HC/Vqu3fs
  • Hc/Vtw3mp1Hc/Vtw3mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine plural1HTd/Vqrfpa
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVNi2ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpp2ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms

Genesis

one use
  • But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

    Genesis 25:22

    • וַיִּתְרֹֽצֲצ֤וּvaiyitrotzatzuHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they struggled together

Deuteronomy

one use
  • A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

    Deuteronomy 28:33

    • וְרָצ֖וּץveratzutzconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and crushed

Judges

two uses
  • But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.

    Judges 9:53

    • וַתָּ֖רִץvataritzHc/Vhw3fstagged: and it crushed
  • who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

    Judges 10:8

    • וַיְרֹֽצְצוּ֙vayrotzetzuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they crushed

1 Samuel

two uses
  • Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”

    1 Samuel 12:3

    • רַצּ֔וֹתִיratzotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: have I crushed
  • “You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”

    1 Samuel 12:4

    • רַצּוֹתָ֑נוּratzotanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: you have crushed us

2 Kings

one use
  • Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

    2 Kings 18:21

    • הָרָצ֤וּץharatzutzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the crushed

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

    2 Chronicles 16:10

    • וַיְרַצֵּ֥ץvayratzetzHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he crushed

Job

one use
  • For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

    Job 20:19

    • רִ֭צַּץritzatzverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has crushed

Psalms

one use
  • You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

    Psalms 74:14

    • רִ֭צַּצְתָּritzatztaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you crushed

Ecclesiastes

two uses
  • Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,

    Ecclesiastes 12:6

    • וְתָרֻ֖ץvetarutzHC/Vqu3fstagged: so it may be crushed
    • וְנָרֹ֥ץvenarotzHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be crushed

Isaiah

four uses
  • Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

    Isaiah 36:6

    • הָרָצ֤וּץharatzutzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the crushed
  • A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

    Isaiah 42:3

    • רָצוּץ֙ratzutzverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: crushed
  • He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

    Isaiah 42:4

    • יָר֔וּץyarutzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be crushed
  • Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

    Isaiah 58:6

    • רְצוּצִים֙retzutzimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: crushed

Ezekiel

one use
  • When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.

    Ezekiel 29:7

    • תֵּר֔וֹץterotzverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you were crushed

Hosea

one use
  • Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

    Hosea 5:11

    • רְצ֣וּץretzutzverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: crushed of

Amos

one use
  • Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

    Amos 4:1

    • הָרֹצְצ֖וֹתharotzetzotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: who crush

The letters

Gematria 380· 1,190 mispar gadol

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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