Mâchats — H4272

Definition

verb

to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy

1. to smite through, shatter, wound severely
1. (Qal)
1. to shatter
2. shattering (participle)

Usually translated as

wound, smite, strike through, dip, pierce

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• bállō (G906)
• báptō (G911)
• thraúō (G2352)
• katágnymi (G2608)
• katatoxeúō (G2700)
• paíō (G3817)
• patássō (G3960)
• strṓnnymi (G4766)
• synthláō (G4917)

Occurrences

Mâchats occurs 15 times in 14 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (2), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (1), Job (2), Psalms (5), Habakkuk (1)

• 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 (יִמְחָֽץ) 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 (וּמָחַץ֙) the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
• 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 (וּמָחַץ֙) 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 (מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙), 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 (מְחַ֨ץ) 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 (וּמָחֲצָ֥ה) and stricken through his temples.
• 2 Samuel 22:39 — And I have consumed them, and wounded (וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם) 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 (יִ֝מְחַ֗ץ), and his hands make whole.
• Job 26:12 — He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through (מָ֣חַץ) the proud.
• Psalms 18:38 — I have wounded (אֶ֭מְחָצֵם) them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
• Psalms 68:21 — But God shall wound (יִמְחַץ֮) 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 (תִּֽמְחַ֥ץ) 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 (מָחַ֖ץ) kings in the day of his wrath.
• Psalms 110:6 — He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound (מָ֥חַץ) the heads over many countries.
• Habakkuk 3:13 — Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst (מָחַ֤צְתָּ) the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.