רָצַץ
râtsats · raw-tsats'
to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to pursue the straight path › to pursue the straight path
The head, the highest that works to pursue the straight path that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָצַץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- struggled together1 · 5%
- and crushed1 · 5%
- and all to brake1 · 5%
- and oppressed1 · 5%
- whom have i oppressed1 · 5%
- us, nor oppressed1 · 5%
- of this bruised1 · 5%
- oppressed1 · 5%
- because he hath oppressed1 · 5%
- thou brakest1 · 5%
- be broken1 · 5%
- broken1 · 5%
- of this broken1 · 5%
- a bruised1 · 5%
- nor be discouraged1 · 5%
- and to let the oppressed1 · 5%
- thou didst break1 · 5%
- and broken1 · 5%
- which crush1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.