# H7523 רָצַח

רָצַח (râtsach), Strong’s H7523: properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder KJV: put to death, kill, (man-) slay(-er), murder(-er).. Occurs 47 times.

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*râtsach* — properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder

KJV: put to death, kill, (man-) slay(-er), murder(-er).

Occurs 47 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רָצַח vb. murder, slay
- Qal murder, slay, with premeditation
- Niph. I shall be slain
- Pi. (intens.) murder, assassinate
- Pu. ye murder

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 20:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=13) — “You shall not murder.
- [Numbers 35:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=6) — “The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the…
- [Numbers 35:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=11) — then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person…
- [Numbers 35:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=12) — The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the…
- [Numbers 35:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=16) — “‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put…
- [Numbers 35:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=17) — If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall…
- [Numbers 35:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=18) — Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The…
- [Numbers 35:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=19) — The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
- [Numbers 35:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=21) — or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a…
- [Numbers 35:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=25) — The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall…