# H7533 רָצַץ

רָצַץ (râtsats), Strong’s H7533: to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively KJV: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.. Occurs 19 times.

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*râtsats* — to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively

KJV: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [רָצַץ] vb. crush
- Qal crush
- Niph. be crushed, broken
- Pi. crush in pieces
- Pō‛ēl acc. pers.
- Hiph. she crushed his skull
- Hithpō‛. recipr., the children crushed (thrust, struck) one another within her.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 25:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=22) — The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of the…
- [Deuteronomy 28:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=33) — A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and…
- [Judges 9:53](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=53) — A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
- [Judges 10:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=8) — They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of…
- [1 Samuel 12:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/12?v=3) — Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I…
- [1 Samuel 12:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/12?v=4) — They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
- [2 Kings 18:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/18?v=21) — Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand…
- [Isaiah 36:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/36?v=6) — Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his…
- [Isaiah 42:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=3) — He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
- [Isaiah 42:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=4) — He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”