רָצַע
râtsaʻ · H7527 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to pierce
Causative action by which humans make a hole in an object with the help of a sharp pointed tool
ExamplesExodus 21:6 then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָדוֹןlord 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֹזֶןear 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ מַרְצֵעַawl 1
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 2 words
- נָקַב nâqab · H5344 · to pierce, to bore a hole
- נָקַב denotes piercing or boring through, overlapping with רָצַע in the context of making a hole (as in boring an ear in Ex 21:6), though נָקַב can have broader violent or profaning connotations while רָצַע is specialized for the ceremonial boring of a servant's ear.
- דָּקַר dâqar · H1856 · to pierce, to thrust through
- דָּקַר means to pierce or thrust through, semantically close to boring in that both involve penetrating with a sharp instrument, though דָּקַר typically involves stabbing or violent piercing rather than the controlled boring action of רָצַע.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The sole occurrence, Exodus 21:6, describes a master who shall "pierce his ear with an awl," directly attesting the sense of a forceful, piercing blow.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7527. ratsa רָצַע verb bore, pierce (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic stab…
רָצַע verb bore, pierce (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic stab violently); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular consecutive ׳וְר Exo 21:6 (E) he shall pierce his ear (accusative, ב instrumental).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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