Strong's #7533: ratsats (pronounced raw-tsats')

a primitive root; to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively:--break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

râtsats

1) to crush, oppress

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to crush, get crushed, be crushed

1a2) to crush, oppress (figuratively)

1a3) crushed (participle passive)

1b) (Niphal) to be crushed, be broken

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to crush in pieces

1c2) to grievously oppress (figuratively)

1d) (Poel) to oppress (figuratively)

1e) (Hiphil) to crush

1f) (Hithpoel) to crush each other

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

 

Genesis 25:22: "And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I"
Deuteronomy 28:33: "and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always:"
Judges 9:53: "upon Abimelech's head, and all to broke his skull."
Judges 10:8: "And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen"
1 Samuel 12:3: "have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received"
1 Samuel 12:4: "Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand."
2 Kings 18:21: "upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on"
2 Chronicles 16:10: "him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time."
Job 20:19: "Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he built not;"
Psalms 74:14: "Thou didst break the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness."
Ecclesiastes 12:6: "cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at"
Ecclesiastes 12:6: "be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern."
Isaiah 36:6: "in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon"
Isaiah 42:3: " A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench:"
Isaiah 42:4: "He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth:"
Isaiah 58:6: "to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every"
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"
Hosea 5:11: "Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after"
Amos 4:1: "of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring,"