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 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
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.
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.
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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- וַיְרַצֵּ֥ץvayratzetzHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he crushed
Job
one use
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
