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# רָדַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7286

**beat out** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

beat out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7286/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָדַד: vb. beat out beat down, subdue Qal, Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7286/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. beat out, fig. beat down, subdue (NH Pi. stamp or beat down, make flat, spread out; 𝔗 רְדַד beat out; cf. prob. Arabic رَدَّ repel, reject (NöM 75); Assyrian radâdu is pursue (rare));—Qal, fig., beat down: Inf. cstr. לְרַד לְפָנָיו גּוֹיִם Is 45:1; Pt. act. הָרוֹדֵד עַמִּי תַּחְתָּ֑י ψ 144:2;—so also Impf. יָרֹד Is 41:2 acc. Ew al. (for MT יַרְדְּ, v. I. רדה Hiph.).—Ju 19:11 read יָרַד. lit. beat out: Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּ֫רֶד עַל־הַכְּרוּבִים … אֶת־הַזָּהָב 1 K 6:32 and beat out the gold upon the cherubim (covered them with beaten gold).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he causes to rule (1); he hammered out (1); subdue (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 144:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.2/#tree)

חַסְדִּ֥י וּמְצוּדָתִי֮ מִשְׂגַּבִּ֪י וּֽמְפַלְטִ֫י לִ֥י מָ֭גִנִּי וּב֣וֹ חָסִ֑יתִי הָרוֹדֵ֖ד עַמִּ֣י תַחְתָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* loyalty my.covenant and stronghold my refuge my and deliverer my to me shield my and \[one whom\].in.him I.take.refuge the.\[one who\].subdues people my under me

*JPS 1917:* My lovingkindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and He in whom I take refuge; who subdueth my people under me.

[Isaiah 41:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.2/#tree)

מִ֤י הֵעִיר֙ מִמִּזְרָ֔ח צֶ֖דֶק יִקְרָאֵ֣הוּ לְרַגְל֑וֹ יִתֵּ֨ן לְפָנָ֤יו גּוֹיִם֙ וּמְלָכִ֣ים יַ֔רְדְּ יִתֵּ֤ן כֶּֽעָפָר֙ חַרְבּ֔וֹ כְּקַ֥שׁ נִדָּ֖ף קַשְׁתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* who? has.he.stirred.up from.\[the\] east righteousness it meets.him to foot his he.delivers.up before him nations and kings he.causes.to.rule he.makes.\[them\] like (the) dust sword his like chaff \[which.is\].driven.about bow his

*JPS 1917:* Who hath raised up one from the east, at whose steps victory attendeth? He giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; his sword maketh them as the dust, his bow as the driven stubble.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7286.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7286/): 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).