To wound
מָחַץStrong’s H4272machats (ma-chats)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machats is the Hebrew word usually translated “shatters”, “it will wound” and “it will shatter”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To smite through, shatter, wound severely(Qal)
How it's translated
- he shatters 3
- it will wound 1
- and it will shatter 1
- i wound 1
- shatter 1
- and she smashed 1
- and i shattered them 1
- he shattered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Numbers 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- Job 2
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 24:17I 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 32:39See 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 33:11Bless, 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 5:26She 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 22:39And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
- Job 5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Hebrew dictionary
מָחַץ machats · to wound
1) to smite through, shatter, wound severely 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to shatter 1a2) shattering (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wound” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOUND, noun
[G.]
- A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force.
- Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.
All definitions and other forms of “wound”
WOUND, verb transitive
To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.
- “He was wounded for our transgressions” Isaiah 53:5
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.