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Crushed

מְרוֹחַStrong’s H4790

meroach (me-ro-ach)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Meroach is the Hebrew word usually translated “crushed of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;”
Leviticus 21:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. Bruised, crushed, rubmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
  • a crushed of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מְרוֹחַ meroach · crushed

    1) bruised, crushed, rub 1a) meaning uncertain

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “crushed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    CRUSHED, participle passive

    Pressed or squeezed so as to break or bruise; overwhelmed or subdued by power; broken or bruised by a fall; grievously oppressed; broken or bruised to powder; comminuted.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.