ratsats · crush; struggle

What it means

ratsats (רָצַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crush; struggle”.

Crush, oppress, break in pieces; of twins in the womb, struggle and push against each other.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To shatter, oppress: "the damaged reed".
2. To jostle each other.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• crushed ×11
• broken ×5
• struggled together ×1
• who crush ×1
• you broke ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 25:22

  The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If so, why me?” So she went to inquire of YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 28:33

  The fruit of your ground and all your labor a people that you have not known will eat; and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

• Judges 9:53

  But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on the head of Abimelech and crushed his skull.

• Judges 10:8

  They shattered and crushed the sons of Israel that year; eighteen years they did so to all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead.

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Here I am; answer against me before YHWH and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I exploited, whom have I crushed, or from the hand of whom have I taken compensation to cover my eyes with it? And I will return it to you.”

• 1 Samuel 12:4

  They said, “You have not exploited us, and you have not crushed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

• 2 Kings 18:21

  Now, look, you have trusted in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, on which a man leans, and it goes into his palm and pierces it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

• 2 Chronicles 16:10

  Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the house of the stocks, for he was in a rage with him over this. And Asa crushed some of the people at that time.

• Job 20:19

  For he crushed and abandoned the poor; a house he seized, and did not build it.

• Psalms 74:14

  You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the people of the desert dwellers.

• Ecclesiastes 12:6

  before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is crushed, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;

• Isaiah 36:6

  Look, you have trusted in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, on which a man leans, and it goes into his palm and pierces it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

• Isaiah 42:3

  A broken reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; in truth he will bring out justice.

• Isaiah 42:4

  He will not grow dim nor be broken, until he establishes justice in the earth; and for his instruction the coastlands will wait.

• Isaiah 58:6

  Is this not the fast that I choose: to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, and to set free the crushed, and that you break every yoke?

• Ezekiel 29:7

  When they grasped you by the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you were broken, and you made all their loins stagger.

• Hosea 5:11

  Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he was determined to go after the command.

• Amos 4:1

  Hear this word, cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, “Bring, and let us drink.”

And 1 more times.