רָשַׁשׁrâshash
Po`el: beat down, shatter (Jeremiah 5:17)
Pronunciation: raw-shash' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7567
Meanings
Pu`al: we are beaten down (Malachi 1:4)
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Jeremiah 5:17 They will devour the food of your harvest; they will devour your sons and daughters. They will devour your flocks and herds; they will devour your grapes and figs. And they will destroy your fortified towns, which you think are so safe.
- Malachi 1:4 Esau’s descendants in Edom may say, “We have been shattered, but we will rebuild the ruins.” But the Lord of Heaven’s Armies replies, “They may try to rebuild, but I will demolish them again. Their country will be known as ‘The Land of Wickedness,’ and their people will be called ‘The People with Whom the Lord Is Forever Angry.’
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).