מָחַץ machats

Hebrew word for “to wound” · Strong’s H4272 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

1) to smite through, shatter, wound severely; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to shatter; 1a2) shattering (participle)

How it is translated

Glosses given for machats in context, with how often each is used:

• shattered 3
• shatters 3
• will shatter 2
• will wound 1
• wound 1
• shatter 1
• smashed 1
• may smash 1
• have shattered 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 24 (2), Psalms 68 (2), Psalms 110 (2), Deuteronomy 32 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1), Judges 5 (1), 2 Samuel 22 (1), Job 5 (1), Job 26 (1), Psalms 18 (1)

Forms

• מחץ 4
• ימחץ 3
• ומחץ 1
• מחצתי 1
• ומחצה 1
• ואמחצם 1
• אמחצם 1
• תמחץ 1
• מחצת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with machats more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 4
• קוּם qum “to arise” 4
• רֶגֶל regel “foot” 3
• רָפָא rapah “to heal” 2
• יָמִין yamin “right” 2
• אֹיֵב oyev “enemy” 2
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 2
• עַתָּה attah “now” 2
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 2
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 2
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 2
• מִן־ min “from” 2

Key verses

The verses using machats that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 24:8 — God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and…
• Numbers 24:17 — I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite…
• Deuteronomy 32:39 — See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
• Deuteronomy 33:11 — Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise…
• Job 5:18 — For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
• Job 26:12 — He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
• Psalms 18:38 — I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
• Psalms 68:21 — But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
• Psalms 68:23 — That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
• Psalms 110:5 — The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
• Psalms 110:6 — He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
• Habakkuk 3:13 — Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.