Strong’s H4272 · Hebrew
מָחַץ
mâchats · maw-khats'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy
In the King James Version dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.
In 14 verses of the King James Version
- Numbers 24:8God 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.
- 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.
- Job 26:12He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
- Psalms 18:38I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
- Psalms 68:21But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
- Psalms 68:23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
- Psalms 110:5The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
- Psalms 110:6He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
- Habakkuk 3:13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.