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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).
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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 - for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - and anything on which any of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they are, yea, unclean they are to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - 'And he hath broken down the house, its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house, and he hath brought them forth unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - 'But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - and ye have broken down their altars, and shivered their standing pillars, and their shrines ye burn with fire, and graven images of their gods ye cut down, and have destroyed their name out of that place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2 - and saith, 'I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye -- ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land -- their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice -- what is this ye have done?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - And the men of the city rise early in the morning, and lo, broken down hath been the altar of Baal, and the shrine which is by it hath been cut down, and the second bullock hath been offered on the altar which is built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - And the men of the city say unto Joash, 'Bring out thy son, and he dieth, because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the shrine which is by it.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - And Joash saith to all who have stood against him, 'Ye, do ye plead for Baal? ye -- do ye save him? he who pleadeth for him is put to death during the morning; if he is a god he himself doth plead against him, because he hath broken down his altar.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:32 - And he calleth him, on that day, Jerubbaal, saying, 'The Baal doth plead against him, because he hath broken down his altar.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - And he speaketh also to the men of Penuel, saying, 'In my turning back in peace, I break down this tower.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - and the tower of Penuel he hath broken down, and slayeth the men of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - and Abimelech hath fought against the city all that day, and captureth the city, and the people who are in it he hath slain, and he breaketh down the city, and soweth it with salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - and break down the standing-pillar of Baal, and break down the house of Baal, and appoint it for a draught-house unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18 - And all the people of the land go in to the house of Baal, and break it down, its altars and its images they have thoroughly broken, and Mattan priest of Baal they have slain before the altars; and the priest setteth inspectors over the house of Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that are in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - And he bringeth in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defileth the high places where the priests have made perfume, from Geba unto Beer-Sheba, and hath broken down the high places of the gates that are at the opening of the gate of Joshua, head of the city, that is on a man's left hand at the gate of the city;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars that are on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, that the kings of Judah made, and the altars that Manasseh made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, hath the king broken down, and removeth thence, and hath cast their dust unto the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - and also the altar that is in Beth-El, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, by which he made Israel sin, both that altar and the high place he hath broken down, and doth burn the high place -- he hath beat it small to dust, and hath burnt the shrine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - and the walls of Jerusalem round about have all the forces of the Chaldeans, who are with the chief of the executioners, broken down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - and all the people enter the house of Baal, and break it down, yea, his altars and his images they have broken, and Mattan priest of Baal they have slain before the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - And at the completion of all this, gone out have all Israel who are found present to the cities of Judah, and break the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrines, and break down the high places and the altars, out of all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, even to completion, and all the sons of Israel turn back, each to his Possession, to their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father hath broken down, and raiseth altars for Baalim, and maketh shrines, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they break down before him the altars of the Baalim, and the images that are on high above them he hath cut down, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images, he hath broken and beaten small, and streweth on the surface of the graves of those sacrificing to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - And he breaketh down the altars and the shrines, and the graven images he hath beaten down very small, and all the images he hath cut down in all the land of Israel, and turneth back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - And they burn the house of God, and break down the wall of Jerusalem, and all its palaces they have burnt with fire, and all its desirable vessels -- to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10 - He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6 - O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 - And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10 - See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place is a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:7 - The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - And it hath been, as I watched over them to pluck up, And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4 - For thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that are broken down for the mounts, and for the tool;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:8 - And the house of the king, and the house of the people, have the Chaldeans burnt with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - and all the walls of Jerusalem round about broken down have all the forces of the Chaldeans that are with the chief of the executioners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - And I have given thee into their hand, And they have thrown down thine arch, And they have broken down thy high places, And they have stript thee of thy garments, And they have taken thy beauteous vessels, And they have left thee naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - And a battering-ram before him he placeth against thy walls, And thy towers he breaketh by his weapons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - And they have spoiled thy wealth, And they have plundered thy merchandise, And they have thrown down thy walls, And thy desirable houses they break down, And thy stones, and thy wood, and thy dust, In the midst of the waters they place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:6 - Before His indignation who doth stand? And who riseth up in the heat of His anger? His fury hath been poured out like fire, And the rocks have been broken by Him.
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