To shatter
נָפַץStrong’s H5310naphats (na-phats)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naphats is the Hebrew word usually translated “smash”, “dispersed” and “smashed”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”
Meaning
- To shatter, break, dash, beat in pieces(Qal) · (Piel) to dash to pieces · (Pual) to pulverise
- Be scattered(Qal)
How it's translated
- and i smash 9
- dispersed 1
- and they smashed 1
- it was scattered 1
- and i will break up them 1
- you will smash them 1
- and he will smash 1
- and scattered of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 7
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 9:19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
- Judges 7:19So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
- 1 Samuel 13:11And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
- 1 Kings 5:9My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
- Psalms 2:9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- Psalms 137:9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Hebrew dictionary
נָפַץ naphats · to shatter
1) to shatter, break, dash, beat in pieces 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to shatter 1a2) shattering (infinitive) 1b) (Piel) to dash to pieces 1c) (Pual) to pulverise
נָפַץ naphats · to disperse
1) be scattered 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be scattered 1a2) dispersed (participle)
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.