רָעַץ râʻats — to break in pieces

pronounced raw-ats' · Strong's H7492 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as dash in pieces, vex.

a primitive root; to break in pieces; figuratively, harass.

râʻats in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 2×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1

תִּרְעַ֥ץ Exod 15:6 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person feminine singular

Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. (KJV)

וַֽיִּרְעֲצ֤וּ Judg 10:8 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine plural

And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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