To shatter
חֲשַׁלStrong’s H2827chashal (cha-shal)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chashal is the Aramaic word usually translated “crushing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”
Meaning
- (P'al) to subdue, crush, shatter
How it's translated
- and crushing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
חֲשַׁל chashal · to shatter
(P'al) to subdue, crush, shatter Aramaic of cha.shal (חָשַׁל "be feeble" H2826)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shatter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHAT'TER, verb transitive
- To braek at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, rend or part by violence into fragments; as, explosion shatters a rock or bomb; lightning shatters the sturdy oak; steam shatters a boiler; a monarchy is shattered by revolt.
- To rend; to crack; to split; to rive into splinters.
- To dissapate; to make incapable of close and continued application; as a man of shattered humor.
- To disorder; to derange; to render delirious; as, to shatter teh brain, the man seems to be shattered in his intellect.
All definitions and other forms of “shatter”
SHAT'TER, verb intransitive
To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.