רְעַעrᵉʻaʻ

crush, shatter

Pronunciation: reh-ah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7490

Meanings

Pa`el: active (Daniel 2:40)

Same root

רָעַעrâʻaʻ · H7489properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

Daniel 2:40 Following that kingdom, there will be a fourth one, as strong as iron. That kingdom will smash and crush all previous empires, just as iron smashes and crushes everything it strikes.

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Daniel 2:40

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).