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# נָפַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5310

**shatter** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shatter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5310/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָפַץ: vb. shatter Qal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5310/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shatter (NH id., dash, beat; Assyrian napâṣu, shatter, destroy DlHWB 475; 𝔗 נְפַע Pa. shatter, but also נְפַץ Pa., id., Syriac ܢܦܰܨ shake, break, so Mand., NöM 240, and ZMG xxxii (1878), 406);— Inf. abs. וְנָפוֹץ c. acc. Ju 7:19 and a shattering (= and shattered) the jars; Pt. pass. עֶצֶב נִבְזֶה נָפוּץ Je 22:28 (fig.) a vessel to be despised (and) shattered (cf. Ew Gie Rothstein Kau); also Pt. act. נֹפֵץ shatterer of the holy people Dn 12:7 (Bev MartiKau, reading כִּכְלוֹת יַד נֹפֵץ). dash to pieces: Pf. 3 ms. וְנִפֵּץ consec. ψ 137:9 c. acc. infants ag. (אֶל) rock; 1 s. וְנִפַּצְתִּ֫י of י׳ dashing all in pieces with (ב) Babyl. as war-club Je 51:20, 21(×2), 22(×3) 23(×3); sf. וְנִפַּצְתִּים אִיּשׁ אֶל־אָחִיו 13:14; Impf. 2 ms. sf. כִּכְלִי יוֹצֵר תְּנַפְּצֵם ψ 2:9 (i.e. nations); 3 mpl. נִבְלֵיהֶם יְנַפֵּ֑צוּ Je 48:12 (symbol. of destroying Moab); Inf. נַפֵּץ יַד־עַם־קֹדֶשׁ Dn 12:7 when (they) finish shattering the hand (fig. for power) of the holy people, but read poss. נֹפֵץ, v. Qal.; = break up rafts 1 K 5:23. Pt. fpl. מְנֻפָּצוֹת Is 27:9 like chalk-stones pulverized.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I smash (9); I (2); he will smash (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 2:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.9/#tree)

תְּ֭רֹעֵם בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט בַּרְזֶ֑ל כִּכְלִ֖י יוֹצֵ֣ר תְּנַפְּצֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* you will.break.them with a.rod of.iron like a.vessel of.a.potter you will.smash.them

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'

[Psalms 137:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.9/#tree)

אַשְׁרֵ֤י ׀ שֶׁיֹּאחֵ֓ז וְנִפֵּ֬ץ אֶֽת־עֹ֝לָלַ֗יִךְ אֶל־הַסָּֽלַע׃

*Word for word:* how.blessed! \[is the.one\].who.he.will.seize and he.will.smash (et) children your to the rock

*JPS 1917:* Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5310.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5310/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).