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Lexicon :: Strong's H5422 - nāṯaṣ

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נָתַץ
Transliteration
nāṯaṣ
Pronunciation
naw-thats'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1446

Strong’s Definitions

נָתַץ nâthats, naw-thats'; a primitive root; to tear down:—beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H5422 in the following manner: break down (22x), throw down (5x), destroy (5x), cast down (3x), beat down (3x), pull down (2x), break out (1x), overthrow (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H5422 in the following manner: break down (22x), throw down (5x), destroy (5x), cast down (3x), beat down (3x), pull down (2x), break out (1x), overthrow (1x).

  1. to pull down, break down, cast down, throw down, beat down, destroy, overthrow, break out (teeth)

    1. (Qal)

      1. to pull down

      2. to break down, break off

    2. (Niphal) to be pulled or broken down

    3. (Piel) to tear down

    4. (Pual) to be torn down

    5. (Hophal) to be broken, be broken down

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָתַץ nâthats, naw-thats'; a primitive root; to tear down:—beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.
STRONGS H5422: Abbreviations
† נָתַץ verb pull down, break down (Late Hebrew Hoph., and derivatives; compare perhaps Ethiopic bdb068301 (with transposition and weakening of sibilant), destruere, demoliri, excidere Di634); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נ׳ Judges 6:30 +, 3rd person plural נָֽתְצוּ 2 Kings 25:10; Jeremiah 52:14, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִתֹּץ Ezekiel 26:9 + Ezekiel 26:12 (Co, for MT יִתְּצוּ); וַיִּתֹּץ Judges 9:45; 2 Kings 23:7; suffix יִתְּצֵנִי Job 19:10, יִתָּצְךָ Psalm 52:7; 1st person singular אֶתֹּץ Judges 8:9; 3rd person masculine plural וַיִּתְּצוּ 2 Kings 10:27 (twice in verse); 2nd person masculine plural תִּתֹּ֑צוּ Deuteronomy 7:5, תִּתֹּצ֑וּן Exodus 34:13; Judges 2:2; וַתִּתְֿצוּ Isaiah 22:2, etc.; Imperative נְתֹץ Psalm 58:7; Infinitive construct לִנְתֿוֺץ Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 18:7, לִנְתֹֿץ Jeremiah 31:28 (on תֿ see Ges§ 45 g); Passive participle plural הַנְּתֻצִים Jeremiah 33:4; —
1. literally pull down a structure (accusative): altar Judges 2:2; Judges 6:30, 31, 32; Exodus 34:13 (J), Deuteronomy 7:5; 2 Kings 23:12; high place (במה) 2 Kings 23:8, בָּמָה + מִזְבֵּחַ 2 Kings 23:15; מַצֵּבָה 2 Kings 10:27; בֵּית הַבַּעַל 2 Kings 10:27; 2 Kings 11:18 2 Chronicles 23:17, compare 2 Kings 23:7; a tower Judges 8:9, 17, compare Ezekiel 26:9 (בְּחַרְבוֺתָיו); (any) house Isaiah 22:10; Ezekiel 26:12; Leviticus 14:45, so הַנְּחֻצִים Jeremiah 33:4 (strangely + אֶל, compare Gf Gie); city-wall Jeremiah 39:8; 2 Kings 25:10 = Jeremiah 52:14; city Judges 9:45.
2. figurative:
a. pull down a nation, break its power, וּלְהַאֲבִיד וְלִנְתוֺשׁ וְלִנ׳ (וְלַהֲרוֺס) (object not expressed) Jeremiah 1:10 (so Ecclus 49:7b), = Jeremiah 18:7, compare Jeremiah 31:18.
b. an individual, subject God, יִתְּצֵנִי סָבִיב Job 19:10, יִתָּצְךָ Psalm 52:7.
c. jaw-teeth of lions (metaphor) Psalm 58:7 (break down, break off, so only here, but see נָתַע).
Niph. be pulled, broken, down: Perfect 3rd person plural י׳ מִפְּנֵי נִתְּצוּ Jeremiah 4:26 (of cities), so מִמֶּנּוּ נ׳ Nahum 1:6 (of rocks).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִתַּץ 2 Chronicles 33:3; 3rd person plural וְנִתְּצוּ Ezekiel 16:39 (consecutive); 2nd person masculine plural וְנִתַּצְתֶּם Deuteronomy 12:3; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיְנַתֵּץ 2 Chronicles 34:7; 3rd person masculine plural וַיְנַתְּצוּ 2 Chronicles 31:1 + 2 times; — tear down (chiefly late): with accusative altars Deuteronomy 12:3, + בָּמוֺת 2 Chronicles 31:1, + הַחַמָּנִים, etc., 2 Chronicles 34:4, + אֲשֵׁרִים 2 Chronicles 34:7; בָּמוֺת alone 2 Chronicles 33:3, רָמֹתַיִךְ Ezekiel 16:39; city wall 2 Chronicles 36:19.
Pu. be torn down: Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נֻתַּץ Judges 6:28 (of altar + אֲשֵׁרָה).
Hoph. (or Qal passive Ges§ 53 u) be broken down, broken, only Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular ייֻתָּ֑ץ Leviticus 11:35 (of תַּנּוּר, see Dr-WhHpt, and כִּירַיִם, see above).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

34:13; 34:13

Leviticus

11:35; 14:45

Deuteronomy

7:5; 7:5; 12:3; 12:3

Judges

2:2; 2:2; 6:28; 6:30; 6:30; 6:31; 6:32; 8:9; 8:9; 8:17; 9:45; 9:45

2 Kings

10:27; 10:27; 10:27; 11:18; 23:7; 23:7; 23:8; 23:12; 23:15; 25:10; 25:10

2 Chronicles

23:17; 31:1; 31:1; 33:3; 33:3; 34:4; 34:7; 34:7; 36:19

Job

19:10; 19:10

Psalms

52:7; 52:7; 58:7; 58:7

Isaiah

22:2; 22:10

Jeremiah

1:10; 1:10; 4:26; 18:7; 18:7; 31:18; 31:28; 33:4; 33:4; 39:8; 52:14; 52:14

Ezekiel

16:39; 16:39; 26:9; 26:9; 26:12; 26:12

Nahum

1:6

H5422

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5422 matches the Hebrew נָתַץ (nāṯaṣ),
which occurs 42 times in 41 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and taken out of the town to an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[fn] and burn their idols in the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2 - and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.’ Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - The people of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal’s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:32 - So because Gideon broke down Baal’s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal[fn] that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - So he said to the men of Peniel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18 - All the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. Then Jehoiada the priest posted guards at the temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the LORD, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - All the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10 - He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6 - Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 - You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10 - See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:7 - If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4 - For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses in this city and the royal palaces of Judah that have been torn down to be used against the siege ramps and the sword

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:8 - The Babylonians[fn] set fire to the royal palace and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:6 - Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.
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