Hebrew verb · H4272
מָחַץ
machatsmaw-khats'
to wound
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâchats
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4272is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4272
to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy
The King James renders it: dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
machats is rendered "to wound". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 24:8God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
Numbers 24:8יִמְחָֽץ׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he shatters3
- and I shattered them1
- and it will shatter1
- and she smashed1
- he shattered1
- he will shatter1
- I shattered them1
- I wound1
- it may smash1
- it will wound1
- shatter1
- you have shattered1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָחַק | machaq | to destroy | Uses1 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֶ֭מְחָצֵם1
- וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם1
- וּמָחַץ֙1
- וּמָחֲצָ֥ה1
- יִמְחַץ֮1
- יִ֝מְחַ֗ץ1
- יִמְחָֽץ׃1
- מְחַ֨ץ1
- מָחַ֖ץ1
- מָ֥חַץ1
- מָ֣חַץ1
- מָחַ֤צְתָּ1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqp3ms
- Hc/Vqq3fs1Hc/Vqq3fs
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- Hc/Vqw1cs/Sp3mp1Hc/Vqw1cs/Sp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi1cs/Sp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqj2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqv2ms
Numbers
two uses
God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
- יִמְחָֽץ׃yimchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will wound
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.
- וּמָחַץ֙umachatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will shatter
Deuteronomy
two uses
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙machatztiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I wound
Bless his substance, O LORD, and accept the work of his hands. Smash the loins of those who rise against him, and of his foes so they can rise no more.”
- מְחַ֨ץmechatzverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: shatter
Judges
one use
She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
- וּמָחֲצָ֥הumachatzahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and she smashed
2 Samuel
one use
I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
- וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖םvaemchatzemHc/Vqw1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I shattered them
Job
two uses
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- יִ֝מְחַ֗ץyimchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he shatters
By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
- מָ֣חַץmachatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he shattered
Psalms
five uses
I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
- אֶ֭מְחָצֵםʾemchatzemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I shattered them
Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
- יִמְחַץ֮yimchatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will shatter
that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes— the tongues of your dogs in the same.”
- תִּֽמְחַ֥ץtimchatzverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it may smash
The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
- מָחַ֖ץmachatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he shatters
He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
- מָ֥חַץmachatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he shatters
Habakkuk
one use
You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah
- מָחַ֤צְתָּmachatztaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have shattered
The letters
Gematria 138· 948 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.