Be discouraged: יָר֔וּץ – ratsats

Be discouraged: יָר֔וּץ – ratsats

• fut.
  1. to break, bruise, crush
  2. trop. to treat with violence, to oppress
  3. intrans. to be broken, Ec. 12:6
• Niph. to be broken, bruised.
• Po. to oppress, Ju. 10:8
• Hiph. to break in pieces, Ju. 9:53
• Hithpo. to struggle together, Ge. 25.22
  • masc. a fragment, piece, Ps. 68:31
  • fem. oppression, Je. 22:17

Davidson Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon page DCXCI

Discouragement is one of the concepts used in the Bible to describe the emotional condition we call depression.

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