Midvash

נָתַץnâthats

pull down, break down

Pronunciation: naw-thats' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5422

Meanings

Qal: Passive participle (Judges 6:30; 2 Kings 25:10; Jeremiah 52:14)

1. pull down (Judges 2:2; Judges 6:30; Judges 6:31)

2.

a. pull down, a nation (Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 18:7; Jeremiah 31:18)

b. an individual (Job 19:10; Psalms 52:7)

c. break down, break off (Psalms 58:7)

Niph`al: be pulled, broken, down (Jeremiah 4:26; Nahum 1:6)

Pi`el: tear down (2 Chronicles 33:3; Ezekiel 16:39; Deuteronomy 12:3)

Pu`al: be torn down (Judges 6:28)

Hoph`al: be broken down, broken, or Qal passive (Leviticus 11:35)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 42 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 34:13 Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  • Leviticus 11:35 Any object on which the carcass of such an animal falls will be defiled. If it is an oven or hearth, it must be destroyed, for it is defiled, and you must treat it accordingly.
  • Leviticus 14:45 It must be torn down, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be carried out of town to the place designated as ceremonially unclean.
  • Deuteronomy 7:5 This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.
  • Deuteronomy 12:3 Break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles and cut down their carved idols. Completely erase the names of their gods!
  • Judges 2:2 For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this?
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).