ra.tash describes violently breaking victims apart in accounts of warfare and devastation.

The attested use describes violent destruction of people in contexts of attack: infants are broken apart before onlookers, at streets, or amid an assault, and a mother is broken apart upon her sons.

1. Violently breaking victims apart in attack · dominant

   In 2 Kings 8:12, the Piel imperfect addresses what Hazael will do to Israel’s infants; the APB renders the clause “their infants you will dash in pieces.” Pual forms describe victims subjected to this violence in Isaiah 13:16 and Nahum 3:10, where the APB renders infants “dashed in pieces,” and Hosea 10:14 presents a mother as “dashed in pieces upon sons.”

   2 Kings 8:12Hosea 10:14Isaiah 13:16Nahum 3:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the term’s contribution is clear, the APB repeatedly uses “dashed in pieces” for infants and for a mother. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, that repeated wording confirms the violent scene without establishing a separate English sense.