נָתַץ

Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

Exodus 34:13

• תִּתֹּצ֔וּןtitotzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will pull down

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:35

• יֻתָּ֖ץyutatzverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be broken up

It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:45

• וְנָתַ֣ץvenatatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will pull down

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:5

• תִּתֹּ֔צוּtitotzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will break down

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

Deuteronomy 12:3

• וְנִתַּצְתֶּ֣םvenitatztemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will break down

and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

Judges 2:2

• תִּתֹּצ֑וּןtitotzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will pull down

When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.

Judges 6:28

• נֻתַּץ֙nutatzverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was torn down

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

Judges 6:30

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

But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”

Judges 6:31

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

So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.

Judges 6:32

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

So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!”

Judges 8:9

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

He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

Judges 8:17

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

And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

Judges 9:45

• וַיִּתֹּץ֙vaiyitotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he pulled down

They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.

2 Kings 10:27

• וַֽיִּתְּצ֔וּvaiyitetzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they pulled down
• וַֽיִּתְּצוּ֙vaiyitetzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they pulled down

So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 11:18

• וַֽיִּתְּצֻ֗הוּvaiyitetzuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they pulled down it

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.

2 Kings 23:7

• וַיִּתֹּץ֙vaiyitotzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he broke down

Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.

2 Kings 23:8

• וְנָתַ֞ץvenatatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he broke down

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:12

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

He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

2 Kings 23:15

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

And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:10

• נָֽתְצוּ֙natetzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they broke down

So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

2 Chronicles 23:17

• וַֽיִּתְּצֻ֔הוּvaiyitetzuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they pulled down it

When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

2 Chronicles 31:1

• וַיְנַתְּצ֣וּvaynatetzuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they pulled down

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

2 Chronicles 33:3

• נִתַּ֖ץnitatzverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had pulled down

Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Chronicles 34:4

• וַיְנַתְּצ֣וּvaynatetzuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and people pulled down

He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:7

• וַיְנַתֵּ֣ץvaynatetzHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he pulled down

Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

2 Chronicles 36:19

• וַֽיְנַתְּצ֔וּvaynatetzuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they pulled down

He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 19:10

• יִתְּצֵ֣נִיyitetzeniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has torn down me

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Psalms 52:5

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

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

Psalms 58:6

• נְתֹ֣ץ׀netotzverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: break off

You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.

Isaiah 22:10

• וַתִּתְֿצוּ֙vatittzevHc/Vqw2mptagged: and you pulled down

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

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

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:26

• נִתְּצוּ֙nitetzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had been pulled down

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

Jeremiah 18:7

• וְלִנְת֖וֹץvelintotzconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to pull 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

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

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:

Jeremiah 33:4

• הַנְּתֻצִ֕יםhanetutzimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: which have been pulled down

The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 39:8

• נָתָֽצוּ׃natatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they broke down

And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:14

• נָֽתְצוּ֙natetzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they broke 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

• וְנִתְּצ֣וּvenitetzuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be broken down

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

Ezekiel 26:9

• יִתֹּ֖ץyitotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will break 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

• יִתֹּ֑צוּyitotzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will pull down

Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

Nahum 1:6

• נִתְּצ֥וּnitetzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are pulled down