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Lexicon :: Strong's H7523 - rāṣaḥ

Aa
רָצַח
Transliteration
rāṣaḥ
Pronunciation
raw-tsakh'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2208

Strong’s Definitions

רָצַח râtsach, raw-tsakh'; a primitive root; properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder:—put to death, kill, (man-) slay(-er), murder(-er).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's H7523 in the following manner: slayer (16x), murderer (14x), kill (5x), murder (3x), slain (3x), manslayer (2x), killing (1x), slayer (with H310) (1x), slayeth (1x), death (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's H7523 in the following manner: slayer (16x), murderer (14x), kill (5x), murder (3x), slain (3x), manslayer (2x), killing (1x), slayer (with H310) (1x), slayeth (1x), death (1x).

  1. to murder, slay, kill

    1. (Qal) to murder, slay

      1. premeditated

      2. accidental

      3. as avenger

      4. slayer (intentional) (participle)

    2. (Niphal) to be slain

    3. (Piel)

      1. to murder, assassinate

      2. murderer, assassin (participle)(subst)

    4. (Pual) to be killed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָצַח râtsach, raw-tsakh'; a primitive root; properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder:—put to death, kill, (man-) slay(-er), murder(-er).
STRONGS H7523: Abbreviations
† רָצַח verb murder, slay (Late Hebrew (rare, also in derivatives) = Biblical Hebrew; compare Arabic bdb095304, bdb095305 break, bruise, crush); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular consecutive וְר׳ Numbers 35:27, וּרְצָחוֺ Deuteronomy 22:26; 2nd person masculine singular (הֲ)רָצַחְתָּ 1 Kings 21:19; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִרְצַח Numbers 35:30; Deuteronomy 4:42; 2nd person masculine singular (צַח-) תִּרְצָ֑ח Exodus 20:13 = Deuteronomy 5:17; Infinitive absolute רָצֹהַּ Hosea 4:2; Jeremiah 7:9; Participle active רֹצֵחַ Deuteronomy 19:3 +, רוֺ׳ Deuteronomy 4:42 +; — murder, slay, with premeditation, Exodus 20:13 (E) = Deuteronomy 5:17; Hosea 4:2; Jeremiah 7:9; 1 Kings 21:19 (all absolute); with accusative of person Deuteronomy 22:26, unawares Deuteronomy 4:42; slay as avenger Numbers 35:27, 30 (P; || חֵמִית Numbers 35:19; Numbers 35:21); especially participle as substantive = slayer, manslayer, without intent, Deuteronomy 4:42; Deuteronomy 19:3, 4, 6; also in P: Numbers 35:6, 11, 12, 25, 26, 27, 28; Joshua 20:3, 5, 6; Joshua 21:13, 21, 27, 32, 26 (van d. H., Baer, Joshua 21:38 Gi; all P); murderer, with intent, Numbers 35:16 (twice in verse); Numbers 35:17 (twice in verse); Numbers 35:18 (twice in verse); Numbers 35:19, 21 (twice in verse); Numbers 35:30; Numbers 30:31; also Job 24:14.
Niph. Imperfect 1st person singular אֵרָצֵחַ Proverbs 22:13 I shall be slain; Participle feminine singular as adjective אִשָּׁה הַנִּרְצָחָה Judges 20:4 the murdered woman.
Pi. (intensive) murder, assassinate: 3rd person masculine plural יְרַצְּחוּ Hosea 6:9 (absolute), יְרַצֵּ֑חוּ Psalm 94:6 (accusative of person, || הָרַג); Psalm 62:4 see below; Participle מְרַצֵּחַ, as substantive 2 Kings 6:32 murderer, assassin; plural מְרֵצְּחִים Isaiah 1:21assassins.
Pu. Imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural תְּרָצְּחוּ Psalm 62:4, so Baer Gi, van d. H. תְּרָצְחוּ, but Ben Naphtali
Pi. תְּרַצְּחוּ (Baer143), so Vrss Hup-Now De Che Bae and others ye murder (or batter, shatter).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

20:13; 20:13

Numbers

35:6; 35:11; 35:12; 35:16; 35:17; 35:18; 35:19; 35:19; 35:21; 35:21; 35:25; 35:26; 35:27; 35:27; 35:27; 35:28; 35:30; 35:30; 35:30

Deuteronomy

4:42; 4:42; 4:42; 4:42; 5:17; 5:17; 19:3; 19:3; 19:4; 19:6; 22:26; 22:26

Joshua

20:3; 20:5; 20:6; 21:13; 21:21; 21:26; 21:27; 21:32; 21:38

Judges

20:4

1 Kings

21:19; 21:19

2 Kings

6:32

Job

24:14

Psalms

62:4; 62:4; 94:6

Proverbs

22:13

Isaiah

1:21

Jeremiah

7:9; 7:9

Hosea

4:2; 4:2; 6:9

H7523

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7523 matches the Hebrew רָצַח (rāṣaḥ),
which occurs 47 times in 40 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:13 - Do not put anyone to death without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:16 - But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17 - Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19 - He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30 - Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:17 - Do not put anyone to death without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:3 - So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:5 - And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:6 - And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:13 - And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:21 - And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:32 - And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:38 - And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - But Elisha was in his house, and the responsible men were seated there with him; and before the king got there, Elisha said to those who were with him, Do you see how this cruel and violent man has sent to take away my life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:3 - How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6 - They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13 - The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:9 - And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
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