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Lexicon :: Strong's H5422 - nāṯaṣ

Aa
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 BoxExo 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2 - And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 - And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the town said to Joash, Make your son come out to be put to death, for pulling down the altar of Baal and cutting down the holy tree which was by it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:32 - So that day he gave him the name of Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal take up his cause against him because his altar has been broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - So he said to the men of Penuel, When I come back in peace, I will have this tower broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18 - Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:7 - And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - Then all the people went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down, and its altars and images broken up; and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10 - I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6 - O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 - And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10 - See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:7 - Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4 - For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:8 - And the Chaldaeans put the king's house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:6 - Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.
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