2 Chronicles 16:10:102 Chr.16.10.W10TAB
וַיְרַצֵּ֥ץ
vayeratsets
“and he crushed or he oppressed”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-ra-TSETS
- Extended
- vah-yeh-rah-TSEETS
- IPA
- /vaj.jə.ratˈtseːts/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he crushed or he oppressed
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
va-ye-ra-TSETS
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-ra-TSETS a-SA
- clause
va-ye-ra-TSETS a-SA min-ha-AM ba-ET ha-HI
- sentence
va-yik-AS a-SA el-ha-ro-E va-yit-ne-HU BET ham-mah-pe-KHET ki-ve-ZA-af i-MO al-ZOT va-ye-ra-TSETS a-SA min-ha-AM ba-ET ha-HI
Exegesis
The following vayeratsets {וַיְרַצֵּץ | wayyeraṣṣêṣ} ‘and-he-oppressed’ with the partitive min-ha-am {מִן־הָעָם | minhāʿām} ‘from-the-people’ marks selective oppression.
Root and etymology
r-ṣ-ṣresh–tsade–tsade
“to crush”
In context — 2 Chronicles 16:10
And Asa became angry with the seer and confined him in the house of the stocks , for he was enraged with him over this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 16:10:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 2 Chronicles 16:10, so the Hebrew word וַיְרַצֵּ֥ץ (vayeratsets) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Chr.16.10.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.16.10.W10.S1) and character.