Strong H4272מָחַץ
to wound
- Transliteration
- mâchats
- Pronunciation
- maw-khats'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to dash asunder; by implication to {crush} smash or violently plunge; figuratively to subdue or destroy: - {dip} pierce ({through}) smite ({through}) strike {through} wound.
Detailed definition
1) to smite through, shatter, wound severely
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shatter
1a2) shattering (participle)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shatter
1a2) shattering (participle)
In the Bible
Strong H4272 appears in 14 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wound5
- pierce2
- smite2
- dip1
- smiteth1
- strike1
- woundedst1
- woundeth1
First verses
- 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 18:38I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
- Psalms 68:21But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
- Psalms 68:23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
- Psalms 110:5The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
- Psalms 110:6He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
- Habakkuk 3:13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.