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To burst

שָׂתַרStrong’s H8368

satar (sa-tar)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Satar is the Hebrew word usually translated “broke out”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.”
1 Samuel 5:9 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Niphal) to burst out, break out
How it's translated
  • and they broke out 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    שָׂתַר satar · to burst

    (Niphal) to burst out, break out

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    BURST, verb intransitive

    preterit tense and participle passive burst The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete.

    1. To fly or break open with force, or with sudden violence; to suffer a violent disruption.
    2. To break away; to spring from; as, to burst from the arms.
    3. To come or fall upon suddenly or with violence; to rush upon unexpectedly; as, a sound bursts upon our ears.
    4. To issue suddenly, or to come from a hidden or retired place into more open view; as, a river bursts from a valley; a spring bursts from the earth.
    All definitions and other forms of “burst”
    1. To break forth into action suddenly; as, to burst into tears.
    2. To break or rush in with violence; as, to burst into a house or a room.

    BURST, verb transitive

    To break or rend by force or violence; to open suddenly; as, to burst a chain or a door; to burst a cannon.

      BURST, noun

      A sudden disruption; a violent rending; more appropriately, a sudden explosion or shooting forth; as a burst of thunder; a burst of applause, a burst of passion.

      1. A rupture, a hernia, or the unnatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.

      BURST, or BURST'EN, participle passive

      or adjective Affected with a rupture or hernia.

        BURST, participle passive

        Opened or rent asunder by violence.

          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.