Ratsats means “break” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7533 רָצַץ (ratsats) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ratsats (raw-tsats') v. 1. to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively [a primitive root] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include break, struggled, crushed, pieces, and crush. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ratsats (raw-tsats') v. 1. to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively [a primitive root] KJV: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.
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to crush
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ratsats, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
The 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:
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7533.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
The 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:
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
And 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.
Behold, 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.
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
Now, 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.
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7533, grouped by book.
Ratsats (Strong's H7533) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "break". ratsats (raw-tsats') v. 1. to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H7533 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7533 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as break, struggled, crushed, pieces, and crush. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.