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To destroy

מָחַקStrong’s H4277

machaq (ma-chaq)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Machaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “shattered”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“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 and stricken through his temples.”
Judges 5:26 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to utterly destroy, annihilate
How it's translated
  • she shattered 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    מָחַק machaq · to destroy

    (Qal) to utterly destroy, annihilate

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “destroy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    DESTROY, verb transitive

    [Latin To pile, to build.]

    1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
    2. To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
    3. To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
    4. To lay waste; to make desolate.“Go up against this land, and destroy it” Isaiah 36:10
    All definitions
    1. To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.“Ye shall destroy all this people” Numbers 32:15“All the wicked will he destroy” Psalms 145:20
    2. To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.“That the body of sin might be destroyed” Romans 6:6
    3. To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume.
    4. In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists.
    5. In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.

    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.