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2 Chronicles 34:4
“And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5422 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to tear down
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יְנַתְּצ֣וּ — verb Piel, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 42 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 34:13Leviticus 11:35Leviticus 14:45Deuteronomy 7:5Deuteronomy 12:3
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָתַץ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.