רָצָא
to run
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Every verse where H7519 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
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רצא — transliterated râtsâʼ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to run.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ezekiel. Found nowhere else but Ezekiel 1:14. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7519 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Ran 1×
- American Standard Version: Ran 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Were darting back and forth 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were moving swiftly 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7519 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7519 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7519 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7519 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Qal) to run
Word origin
vb. si vera l., ‖ form of רוּץ run, inf. abs. רָצוֹא Ez 1:14, but read יָצוֹא (יֵֽצְאוּ) Hi-Sm Co Toy, cf. Krae Berthol al.; 𝔊 om. verse and most mod. think interpol.—Vid. also רצה.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רְצָא
- , v. רְצֵי
רְצֵי
- ch. same; v. next w.
- to appease, to effect atonement. Ber. 33ᵇ כמה ידע … לרַצּוּיֵי למריה how well that scholar knows how to appease his Master! Yoma 7ᵃ למה לי לרצויי what need would there be for the atoning power of the priest’s plate?; a. e.—Erub. 100ᵇ; Yalk. Gen. 31, v. infra.
- 1. to be pleasant. Erub. 100ᵇ דמַרְצְיָא אַרְצוּיֵי קמיה (Ms. M. דמרצי רַצּוּיֵי, read: דמְרַצְּיָא, Pa.) she makes herself pleasant (attractive) to him; Yalk. Gen. 31 דמְרַצְּיָיא רַצּוּיֵיה she tries to please him.
- 2. as preced. Hif. 3. Ḥag. 14ᵇ דא׳ זאַרְצוּ קמיה וכ׳ he mentions only such a one as discoursed (on theosophy), and before whom others discoursed. Ib. דא׳ מיהא קמיה מאן דא׳ he at least discoursed before one who again discoursed before others.
- to be appeased. Taan. 23ᵇ אפשר דמִירְצֵי הקב"ה וכ׳ (Ms. M. 2 דמִתְרְצֵי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90) peradventure the Lord will be appeased and send rain.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
