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# רְעַע

Biblical Aramaic

**crush** — used 2 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

crush [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְעַע: vb. crush, shatter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5b7_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. crush, shatter (𝔗 Syriac; v. BH רצץ);— Impf. 3 fs. (וְ)תֵרֹעַ Dn 2:40 (obj. om.). Pt. act. מְרָעַע 2:40 (acc. rei).

### Jastrow 1903

רְעַע: to shatter, break Pa. to do harm to be shaken, broken; be afraid to be shaken, impaired [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5b7_5e2/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to shatter, break. Targ. Jud. IX, 53 ורָעַת (Levita ורְעִיעַת; some ed. ורעתת, corr. acc.). Targ. Y. II, Ex. XV, 6 רָעָא (some ed. רעע, corr. acc.). Targ. Job XX, 19 (ed. Wil. רָעַע Pa.); a. e.—Part. pass. רְעִיעַ, רְעִיעָא; f. רְעִיעָא, רְעִיעֲתָא. Targ. Is. XLII, 3. Targ. Koh. XII, 6; a. e.—Taan. 20ᵇ אשיתא ר׳ Ms. M. (ed. רעועה h.) a threatening wall. Ib. ביתא ר׳ a ruinous-looking house; a. fr. same. Targ. Job XX, 10. Ib. 19, v. supra; a. e. to do harm. Ib. XXIV, 21 מֵרַע (Ms. מְיָירַע; h. text רֹעֶה). to be shaken, broken; be afraid. Targ. Y. Deut. XX, 3 (Var. תִּתְיָרְע׳). to be shaken, impaired. Hor. 12ᵃ ומִיתְרַע מזליה and his luck may be shaken, v. רִיעַ II. B. Bath. 59ᵃ דתִיתְרַע וכ׳, v. אֲשִׁיתָא. Ḥull. 10ᵃ סכין אִיתְרְעָאִי וכ׳ the status of the knife has been impaired (the knife having been found notched after slaughtering), but the status of the slaughtered animal (the presumption of its ritual fitness) has not been shaken, v. רֵיעוּתָא.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] crushing (1); it will crush (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 2:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.40/#tree)

וּמַלְכוּ֙ רְבִ֣יעָאָ֔ה תֶּהֱוֵ֥א תַקִּיפָ֖ה כְּפַרְזְלָ֑א כָּל־קֳבֵ֗ל דִּ֤י פַרְזְלָא֙ מְהַדֵּ֤ק וְחָשֵׁל֙ כֹּ֔לָּא וּֽכְפַרְזְלָ֛א דִּֽי־מְרָעַ֥ע כָּל־אִלֵּ֖ין תַּדִּ֥ק וְתֵרֹֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and a.kingdom fourth it.will.be strong like (the) iron as to because that the iron \[is\].shattering and.\[is\] crushing (the) everything and like (the) iron which \[is\].crushing all these it.will.shatter and it.will.crush

*JPS 1917:* And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and beateth down all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5b7_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5e2_5b7_5e2/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).