Hebrew

To run

רָצָאStrong’s H7519

ratsa (ra-tsa)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Ratsa is the Hebrew word usually translated “were running”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.”

Ezekiel 1:14 KJV

Meaning

(Qal) to run

How it's translated

they were running 1

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

Where it's used most

Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

רָצָא ratsa · to run

(Qal) to run

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

RUN, verb intransitive

preterit tense ran or run; participle passive run

To move or pass in almost any manner, as on the feet or on wheels.
To move or pass on the feet with celerity or rapidity, by leaps or long quick steps; as, men and quadrupeds run when in haste.
To use the legs in moving; to step; as, children run alone or run about.
To move in a hurry.

All definitions and other forms of “run”

To proceed along the surface; to extend; to spread; as, the fire runs over a field or forest.“The fire ran along upon the ground” Exodus 9:23
To rush with violence; as, a ship runs against a rock; or one ship runs against another.
To move or pass on the water; to sail; as, ships run regularly between New York and Liverpool.
To contend in a race; as, men or horses run for a prize.
To flee for escape.
To depart privately; to steal away.
To flow in any manner, slowly or rapidly; to move or pass; as a fluid.
To emit; to let flow.
To be liquid or fluid.
To be fusible; to melt.
To fuse; to melt.
To turn; as, a wheel runs on an axis or on a pivot.
To pass; to proceed; as, to run through a course of business; to run through life; to run in a circle or a line; to run through all degrees of promotion.
To flow, as words, language or periods.
To pass, as time.
To have a legal course; to be attached to; to have legal effect.
To have a course or direction.
To pass in thought, speech or practice; as, to run through a series of arguments; to run from one topic to another.
To be mentioned cursorily or in few words.
To have a continued tenor or course.
To be in motion; to speak incessantly.
To be busied; to dwell.
To be popularly known.
To be received; to have reception, success or continuance.
To proceed in succession.
To pass from one state or condition to another; as, to run into confusion or error; to run distracted.
To proceed in a train of conduct.
To be in force.
To be generally received.
To be carried; to extend; to rise; as, debates run high.
To have a track or course.
To extend; to lie in continued length.
To have a certain direction.
To pass in an orbit of any figure.
To tend in growth or progress.
To grow exuberantly.
To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
To reach; to extend to the remembrance of; as time out of mind, the memory of which runneth not to the contrary.
To continue in time, before it becomes due and payable; as, a note runs thirty days; a note of six months has ninety days to run
To continue in effect, force or operation.
To press with numerous demands of payment; as, to run upon a bank.
To pass or fall into fault, vice or misfortune; as, to run into vice; to run into evil practices; to run into debt; to run into mistakes.
To fall or pass by gradual changes; to make a transition; as, colors run one into another.
To have a general tendency.
To proceed as on a ground or principle. obsolete
To pass or proceed in conduct or management.
To creep; to move by creeping or crawling; as, serpents run on the ground.
To slide; as, a sled or sleigh runs on the snow.
To dart; to shoot; as a meteor in the sky.
To fly; to move in the air; as, the clouds run from noun E. to S.W.
In Scripture, to pursue or practice the duties of religion.“Ye did run well; who did hinder you?” Galatians 5:7
In elections, to have interest or favor; to be supported by votes.
To run after, to pursue or follow.
To search for; to endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes.
To run away with, to hurry without deliberation.
To convey away; or to assist in escape or elopement.
To run in with, to close; to comply; to agree with. [Unusual.]
To make towards; to near; to sail close to; as, to run in with the land; a seaman's phrase.
To run on, to be continued.
To talk incessantly.
To continue a course.
To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasms; to bear hard on.
To run out, to come to an end; to expire; as, a lease runs out at Michaelmas.
To spread exuberantly; as, insectile animals run out into legs.
To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions.
To be wasted or exhausted; as, an estate managed without economy, will soon run out.
To become poor by extravagance.

RUN, verb transitive

To drive or push; in a general sense.
To drive; to force.
To cause to be driven.“They ran the ship aground” Acts 27:41
To melt; to fuse.
To incur; to encounter; to run the risk or hazard of losing one's property.
To venture; to hazard.
To smuggle; to import or export without paying the duties required by law; as, to run goods.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation; as, to run the world back to its first original.
To push; to thrust; as, to run the hand into the pocket or the bosom; to run a nail into the foot.
To ascertain and mark by metes and bounds; as, to run a line between towns or states.
To cause to ply; to maintain in running or passing; as, to run a stage coach from London to Bristol; to run a line of packets from New Haven to New York.
To cause to pass; as, to run a rope through a block.
To found; to shape, form or make in a mold; to cast; as, to run buttons or balls.
To run down, in hunting, to chase to weariness; as, to run down a stag.
In navigation, to run down a vessel, is to run against her, end on, and sink her.
To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
To run hard, to press with jokes, sarcasm or ridicule.
To urge or press importunately.
To run over, to recount in a cursory manner; to narrate hastily; as, to run over the particulars of a story.
To consider cursorily.
To pass the eye over hastily.
To run out, to thrust or push out; to extend.
To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate.
To run up, to increase; to enlarge by additions.
To thrust up, as any thing long and slender.

RUN, noun

The act of running.
Course; motion; as the run of humor.
Flow; as a run of verses to please the ear.
Course; process; continued series; as the run of events.
Way; will; uncontrolled course.
General reception; continued success.
Modish or popular clamor; as a violent run against university education.
A general or uncommon pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
The aftmost part of a ship's bottom.
The distance sailed by a ship; as, we had a good run
A voyage; also, an agreement among sailors to work a passage from one place to another.
A pair of mill-stones.
Prevalence; as, a disease, opinion or fashion has its run
In the middle and southern states of America, a small stream; a brook.

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.