נָפַץnâphats

Meanings

Same root

• מַפָּץmappâts · H4660a smiting to pieces
• מַפֵּץmappêts · H4661a smiter, i.e. a war club
• נֶפֶץnephets · H5311a storm (as dispersing)

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 9:19 From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth.
• Judges 7:19 It was just after midnight, after the changing of the guard, when Gideon and the 100 men with him reached the edge of the Midianite camp. Suddenly, they blew the rams’ horns and broke their clay jars.
• 1 Samuel 13:11 but Samuel said, “What is this you have done?” Saul replied, “I saw my men scattering from me, and you didn’t arrive when you said you would, and the Philistines are at Micmash ready for battle.
• 1 Kings 5:9 My servants will bring the logs from the Lebanon mountains to the Mediterranean Sea and make them into rafts and float them along the coast to whatever place you choose. Then we will break the rafts apart so you can carry the logs away. You can pay me by supplying me with food for my household.”
• Psalms 2:9 You will break them with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots.’”
• Psalms 137:9 Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!