Hebrew

To beat

רָשַׁשׁStrong’s H7567

rashash (ra-shash)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Rashash is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will shatter” and “we have been shattered”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.”

Jeremiah 5:17 KJV

Meaning

To beat down, shatter(Poel) to beat down, shatter · (Pual) to be beaten down

How it's translated

it will shatter 1
we have been shattered 1

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

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 1
Malachi 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Malachi 1:4Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

Hebrew dictionary

רָשַׁשׁ rashash · to beat

1) to beat down, shatter 1a) (Poel) to beat down, shatter 1b) (Pual) to be beaten down

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

BEAT, verb transitive

preterit tense beat; participle passive beat beaten. [Latin batuo. See Abate.]

To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12:45 Deuteronomy 25:3
To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.
To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36
To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance; or to hammer into any form; to forge. Exodus 39:3

All definitions and other forms of “beat”

To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.
To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.
To tread, as a path.
To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.
To harass; to exercise severely; to overlabor; as, to beat the brains about logic.

BEAT, verb intransitive

To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats; or to throb, as the heart beats.

To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.
To knock at a door. Judges 19:22
To fluctuate; to be in agitation.

BEAT, noun

A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.

A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.
The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.

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.