רֶ֫צַח
shattering
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7524 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Psalms 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
רצח (retsach) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “shattering.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Psalms dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Psalms 42:10. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7524 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Slaughter 1×, Sword 1×
- American Standard Version: Slaughter 1×, Sword 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Like the crushing 1×, Slaughter 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Crushing 1×, Slaughter 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7524 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7524 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7524 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7524 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- shattering
Word origin
Derived from רצח (râtsach) (H7523) — to murder.
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.
רָצַח
- [to perforate, cmp. הרג; חָלָל,] to slay, murder. Midr. Till. to Ps. III (ref. to ארבעתים, II Sam. XII, 6) אתה רָצַחְתָּ אחד שש עשרה נִרְצָחִים יהיו לך thou hast murdered one: there shall be sixteen of thine murdered; Yalk. Sam. 148. Macc. 12ᵃ מי כתיב אם ר׳ it reads not (Num. XXXV, 27), ‘if he slew’ (but, ‘he shall slay’); ib. מי כתיב יִרְצַח it reads not, ‘he shall slay’ (but, if he slays he is not punished); a. e.—Part. רוֹצֵחַ manslayer, murderer. Shebi. X, 8; Macc. II, 8 ר׳ שגלה … ר׳ אני when an involuntary manslayer comes to his place of refuge, and the citizens desire to honor him, he must say, I am a manslayer. Snh. 73ᵃ (ref. to Deut. XXII, 26) מקיש ר׳ … אף ר׳ ניתן להצילו בנפשו the text draws an analogy between the case of one pursued by a murderer and that of the betrothed woman threatened with assault: as it is permitted to save the woman at the cost of the assailant’s life, so it is permitted to save the pursued at the cost of the would-be murderer’s life; Pes. 25ᵇ; a. fr.—[Tosef. Sot. XV, 7, read: רוֹצְעָן.]—Pl. רוֹצְחִים, רוֹצְחִין. Macc. 10ᵃ, v. זָרַח. Ib. 9ᵇ בגלעד שכיחי ר׳ in Gilead cases of manslaughter are frequent; a. fr. e.g. 2 Samuel 12:6
- to be slain, murdered. Midr. Till. to Ps. III; v. supra; a. e.
- to commit suicide(?). Pesik. R. s. 24 (ref. to לא תרצח Ex. XX, 13) לא תִתְרַצֵּחַ thou shalt not murder thyself; [prob. to be read: לא תִצָּרֵחַ לא תעשה הדם צוֹרֵחַ עליך thou shalt not be cried about, make no blood cry out against thee]. e.g. Exodus 20:13
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H7524 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/רֶ֔צַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 21:22 | 1 |
| בְּ/רֶ֤צַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 42:10 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
