Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4272
מָחַץ
ma.chats · “to wound”
Used 14 times across 7 books
Definition
1) to smite through, shatter, wound severely
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shatter
1a2) shattering (participle)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shatter
1a2) shattering (participle)
Where it appears
Numbers2
Deuteronomy2
Judges1
2 Samuel1
Job2
Psalms5
Habakkuk1
In the text
Numbers 24:8God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.Numbers 24:17I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.Deuteronomy 33:11Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.Judges 5:26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.2 Samuel 22:39And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.Job 5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.Job 26:12He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.Psalms 18:39For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.Psalms 68:22The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
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