רָצַץrâtsats

crush

Pronunciation: raw-tsats' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7533

Meanings

Qal: crush (1 Samuel 12:4; 1 Samuel 12:3; Isaiah 42:4)

1.

b. get crushed (Ecclesiastes 12:6)

2. crush, oppress (1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4; Amos 4:1)

Niph`al: be crushed, broken (Ecclesiastes 12:6; Ezekiel 29:7; Job 20:10)

Pi`el: crush in pieces

2. figurative = grievously oppress (Job 20:19; 2 Chronicles 16:10)

Po`el: = Pi`el 2; || רעץ (Judges 10:8)

Hiph`il: she crushed his skull. (Judges 9:53)

Hithpo`el: the children crushed, one another within her. (Genesis 25:22)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 19 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 25:22 But the two children struggled with each other in her womb. So she went to ask the Lord about it. “Why is this happening to me?” she asked.
  • Deuteronomy 28:33 A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
  • Judges 9:53 a woman on the roof dropped a millstone that landed on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.
  • Judges 10:8 who began to oppress them that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites east of the Jordan River in the land of the Amorites (that is, in Gilead).
  • 1 Samuel 12:3 Now testify against me in the presence of the Lord and before his anointed one. Whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe and perverted justice? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong.”
  • 1 Samuel 12:4 “No,” they replied, “you have never cheated or oppressed us, and you have never taken even a single bribe.”
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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).