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רָסַס râçaç — to comminute

pronounced raw-sas' · Strong's H7450 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as temper.

a primitive root; to comminute; used only as denominative from H7447,; to moisten (with drops).

râçaç in each stem

Qal (Pa'al)

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

Infinitive construct 1

לָרֹ֣ס Ezek 46:14 Infinitive construct

And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord. (KJV)

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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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