הָרַס

You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Exodus 15:7

• תַּהֲרֹ֣סtaharosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you threw down

and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.

Exodus 19:21

• יֶהֶרְס֤וּyehersuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they should break through

And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”

Exodus 19:24

• יֶֽהֶרְס֛וּyehersuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they break through

You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

Exodus 23:24

• הָרֵס֙haresverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: completely tear down
• תְּהָ֣רְסֵ֔םteharesemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will tear down them

On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

Judges 6:25

• וְהָרַסְתָּ֗veharastaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will tear down

Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”

2 Samuel 11:25

• וְהָרְסָ֖הּveharesahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and tear down it

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.

1 Kings 18:30

• הֶהָרֽוּס׃heharusthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: that was torn down

“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

1 Kings 19:10

• הָרָ֔סוּharasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have torn down

“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

1 Kings 19:14

• הָרָ֔סוּharasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have torn down

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

2 Kings 3:25

• יַהֲרֹ֡סוּyaharosuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they tore down

In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.

1 Chronicles 20:1

• וַיֶּֽהֶרְסֶֽהָ׃vaiyehersehaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he overthrew it

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

Job 12:14

• יַ֭הֲרוֹסyaharosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he tears down

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Psalms 11:3

• יֵֽהָרֵס֑וּןyeharesunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will be torn down

Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.

Psalms 28:5

• יֶ֝הֶרְסֵ֗םyehersemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he will tear down them

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.

Psalms 58:6

• הֲרָס־haros-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: break away

By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

Proverbs 11:11

• תֵּהָרֵֽס׃teharesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is torn down

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 14:1

• תֶהֶרְסֶֽנּוּ׃tehersenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: she tears down it

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

Proverbs 24:31

• נֶהֱרָֽסָה׃neherasahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was broken down

By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it.

Proverbs 29:4

• יֶֽהֶרְסֶֽנָּה׃yehersenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he breaks down it

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

Isaiah 14:17

• הָרָ֑סharasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he tore down

I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.

Isaiah 22:19

• יֶהֶרְסֶֽךָ׃yehersekhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will tear down you

Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

Isaiah 49:17

• מְהָֽרְסַ֥יִךְmeharesayikhverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: tear down you

See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”

Jeremiah 1:10

• וְלַהֲר֑וֹסvelaharosconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to tear down

I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

Jeremiah 24:6

• אֶהֱרֹ֔סʾeherosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will tear down

Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 31:28

• וְלַהֲרֹ֖סvelaharosconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to tear down

The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

Jeremiah 31:40

• יֵהָרֵ֛סyeharesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be torn down

‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.

Jeremiah 42:10

• אֶהֱרֹ֔סʾeherosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will tear down

Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

Jeremiah 45:4

• הֹרֵ֔סhoresverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to tear down

Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.

Jeremiah 50:15

• נֶהֶרְס֖וּnehersuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be torn down

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:2

• הָרַ֧סharasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has torn down

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 2:17

• הָרַ֖סharasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has torn down

I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 13:14

• וְהָ֨רַסְתִּ֜יveharastiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will tear down

Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16:39

• וְהָרְס֤וּveharesuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will tear down

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

Ezekiel 26:4

• וְהָֽרְסוּ֙veharesuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will tear down

They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.

Ezekiel 26:12

• וְהָֽרְסוּ֙veharesuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will tear down

A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down.

Ezekiel 30:4

• וְנֶהֶרְס֖וּvenehersuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be torn down

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

Ezekiel 36:35

• וְהַנֶּהֱרָס֖וֹתvehaneherasotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: and the broken down

Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

Ezekiel 36:36

• הַנֶּ֣הֱרָס֔וֹתhaneherasotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the broken down

The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 38:20

• וְנֶהֶרְס֣וּvenehersuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be thrown down

The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

Joel 1:17

• נֶהֶרְס֖וּnehersuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been torn down

I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.

Micah 5:11

• וְהָרַסְתִּ֖יveharastiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will tear down

Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

Malachi 1:4

• אֶהֱר֑וֹסʾeherosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will tear down