רָשַׁשׁ
rashash · demolish
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7567 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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rashash (רָשַׁשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “demolish”.
To destroy, to ruin, to leave in ruins.
How to say it
ra·shash
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
- To beat down into ruins.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- We have been shattered ×1
- they will shatter ×1
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 5:17
And they will eat up your harvest and your bread; they will eat up your sons and your daughters; they will eat up your flocks and your herds; they will eat up your vine and your fig tree; they will shatter with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.
- Malachi 1:4
If Edom says, “We have been shattered, but we will return and build the ruins,” thus says YHWH Tsevaot: They will build, but I will tear down; and they will call them “Territory of wickedness” and “the people against whom YHWH is indignant forever.”