Strong's Hebrew · H4272
מָחַץ
mâchats · maw-khats'
Definitionto dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagedip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.
Occurrences15 in the KJV · 14 verses
מָחַץ in Scripture
Numbers 24:8
God 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 24:17
I 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 32:39
See 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 33:11
Bless, 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 5:26
She 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 22:39
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
Job 5:18
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Job 26:12
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
Psalms 18:38
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Psalms 68:21
But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
Psalms 68:23
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
Psalms 110:5
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
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