ratsats (to crush)

Meaning

To crush, oppress(Qal) · (Niphal) to be crushed, be broken · (Piel) · (Poel) to oppress (fig) · (Hiphil) to crush · (Hithpoel) to crush each other

How it's translated

crushed 4
and they struggled together 1
and crushed 1
and it crushed 1
and they crushed 1
have i crushed 1
you have crushed us 1
and he crushed 1

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

Where it's used most

Isaiah 4
Judges 2
1 Samuel 2
Genesis 1
Deuteronomy 1
2 Kings 1

13 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Judges 9:53And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
Judges 10:8And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
1 Samuel 12:3Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
1 Samuel 12:4And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.
2 Kings 18:21Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

All 18 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 25:22
Deuteronomy 1: 28:33
Judges 2: 9:53 10:8
1 Samuel 2: 12:3 12:4
2 Kings 1: 18:21
2 Chronicles 1: 16:10
Job 1: 20:19
Psalms 1: 74:14
Ecclesiastes 1: 12:6
Isaiah 4: 36:6 42:3 42:4 58:6
Ezekiel 1: 29:7
Hosea 1: 5:11
Amos 1: 4:1

Hebrew dictionary

רָצַץ ratsats · to crush

1) to crush, oppress 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to crush, get crushed, be crushed 1a2) to crush, oppress (fig) 1a3) crushed (participle passive) 1b) (Niphal) to be crushed, be broken 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to crush in pieces 1c2) to grievously oppress (fig) 1d) (Poel) to oppress (fig) 1e) (Hiphil) to crush 1f) (Hithpoel) to crush each other

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

CRUSH, verb transitive

To press and bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape; to bruise by pressure.
To press with violence; to force together into a mass.
To overwhelm by pressure; to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising; as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.“Who are crushed before the moth” Job 4:19
To overwhelm by power; to subdue; to conquer beyond resistance; as, to crush ones enemies; to crush a rebellion.

All definitions and other forms of “crush”

To oppress grievously.“Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always” Deuteronomy 28:33
To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding; to comminute.

CRUSH, verb intransitive

To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.

CRUSH, noun

A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies; or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass; as the crush of a large tree, or of a building.

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