To tear
נָתַץStrong’s H5422natats (na-tats)
Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Natats is the Hebrew word usually translated “pulled down”, “broke down” and “pull down”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.
“But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:”
Meaning
- To pull down, break down, cast down, throw down, beat down, destroy, overthrow, break out (teeth)(Qal) · (Niphal) to be pulled or broken down · (Piel) to tear down · (Pual) to be torn down · (Hophal) to be broken, be broken down
How it's translated
- and they pulled down 4
- they broke down 3
- and to pull down 3
- you will pull down 2
- he has torn down 2
- he tore down 2
- and he pulled down 2
- and they pulled down it 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 8
- 2 Kings 7
- Jeremiah 7
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Ezekiel 3
- Leviticus 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:35And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 14:45And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
- Deuteronomy 7:5But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
- Deuteronomy 12:3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- Judges 2:2And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
- Judges 6:28And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
All 41 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נָתַץ natats · to tear
1) to pull down, break down, cast down, throw down, beat down, destroy, overthrow, break out (teeth) 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pull down 1a2) to break down, break off 1b) (Niphal) to be pulled or broken down 1c) (Piel) to tear down 1d) (Pual) to be torn down 1e) (Hophal) to be broken, be broken down
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEAR, noun
- Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.
All definitions and other forms of “tear”
TEAR, verb transitive
[Latin tero.]
- To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh.
- To wound; to lacerate.
- To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
- To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
- To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
- To remove by violence; to break up.
- To make a violent rent.
TEAR, verb intransitive
To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.
TEAR, noun
A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]
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.