רָטַשׁ râṭâsh — to dash down
Translated in the KJV as dash.
a primitive root; to dash down.
râṭâsh in each stem
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 1
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›