רֶצַח
retsach · H7524 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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murder
Causative action by which humans take the life of other humans, whether or not intentionally
ExamplesEzekiel 21:22 “Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to set up battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to raise the voice with a battle cry, to set up battering rams against the gates, to pile up assault ramps, to build a siege wall.
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great distress, agony
Literally: murder in one's bones; hence: act of non-physical aggression to an individual's personality
ExamplesPsalm 42:10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
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2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- הֲרֵגָה hărêgâh · H2028 · slaughter, butchery
- Both are nouns denoting violent killing or slaughter.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dead002001001018
- Ezekiel 21:27's threefold cry "ruins, ruins, ruins" belongs to the chapter's extended oracle of the avenging sword, connecting this word's slaughter sense to violent death.
- Grieve002001002013
- Psalm 42:11 asks, "why are you in despair, my soul, and why are you restless within me," attesting a sense of turbulent inner distress associated with this word's range.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7524. retsach רֶ֫צַח noun [masculine] shattering; — ׳בְּר בְּעַצְמוֺתַי Psa 42:11 with a…
רֶ֫צַח noun [masculine] shattering; — ׳בְּר בְּעַצְמוֺתַי Psa 42:11 with a shattering in my bones, figurative of effect of sneering words (Manuscripts ׳כְּר; Ol Gr Che We כְּרָקָב); apparently slaughter Eze 21:27, but ᵐ5 βοῇ (so || תְּרוּעָה), Co רִגָּה, Houb (in Rosenm) צֶרַח, so Berthol Toy Krae.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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