[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%A9/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ר](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/resh/)‎ / רָשַׁשׁ‎

# רָשַׁשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7567

**beat down** — used 2 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 down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7567/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָשַׁשׁ: vb. Pōʿēl beat down, shatter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7567/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pōʿēl beat down, shatter (Syriac ܪܰܫ bruise, grind);—Impf. 3 ms. יְרשֵׁשׁ Je 5:17 one shall beat down thy fortified cities. Pf. 1 pl. רֻשַּׁשְׁנוּ Mal 1:4 we are beaten down.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will shatter (1); we have been shattered (1).

## In the verses

[Malachi 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.1.4/#tree)

כִּֽי־תֹאמַ֨ר אֱד֜וֹם רֻשַּׁ֗שְׁנוּ וְנָשׁוּב֙ וְנִבְנֶ֣ה חֳרָב֔וֹת כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הֵ֥מָּה יִבְנ֖וּ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶהֱר֑וֹס וְקָרְא֤וּ לָהֶם֙ גְּב֣וּל רִשְׁעָ֔ה וְהָעָ֛ם אֲשֶׁר־זָעַ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.will.say Edom we.have.been.shattered and we.will.return and we.will.rebuild \[the\].ruins thus he.says Yahweh of.hosts they they.will.build and I I.will.tear.down and people.will.call (to) them a.territory of.wickedness and the people which he.was.indignant Yahweh until perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* Whereas Edom saith: 'We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places'; thus saith the LORD of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The border of wickedness, and The people whom the LORD execrateth for ever.

[Jeremiah 5:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.17/#tree)

וְאָכַ֨ל קְצִֽירְךָ֜ וְלַחְמֶ֗ךָ יֹאכְלוּ֙ בָּנֶ֣יךָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֔יךָ יֹאכַ֤ל צֹאנְךָ֙ וּבְקָרֶ֔ךָ יֹאכַ֥ל גַּפְנְךָ֖ וּתְאֵנָתֶ֑ךָ יְרֹשֵׁ֞שׁ עָרֵ֣י מִבְצָרֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתָּ֛ה בּוֹטֵ֥חַ בָּהֵ֖נָּה בֶּחָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.devour harvest your and food your they.will.devour sons your and daughters your it.will.devour flock\[s\] your and herd\[s\] your it.will.devour vine\[s\] your and your.fig tree\[s\] it.will.shatter the.cities your.fortifications your which you \[are\].trusting in them with the sword

*JPS 1917:* And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall batter thy fortified cities, wherein thou trusteth, with the sword.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7567.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7567/): 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).