# רָצַץ (ratsats)

Israeli respelling: ra-tsats. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7533. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively

King James renderings: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ratsats-h7533

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 25:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/22) — 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.
- [Deuteronomy 28:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/33) — 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 alwa…
- [Judges 9:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/53) — And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
- [Judges 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/8) — And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jorda…
- [1 Samuel 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/3) — 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 h…
- [1 Samuel 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/4) — And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.
- [2 Kings 18:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/21) — 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 pier…
- [2 Chronicles 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/16/10) — 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 som…
- [Job 20:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/19) — Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
- [Psalms 74:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/14) — Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
- [Ecclesiastes 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/6) — 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 ciste…
- [Isaiah 36:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/36/6) — 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…
- [Isaiah 42:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/3) — A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
- [Isaiah 42:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/4) — He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
- [Isaiah 58:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/6) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 29:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/7) — 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 m…
- [Hosea 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/11) — Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
- [Amos 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/1) — 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 m…