נָתַץ natats

Hebrew word for “to tear” · Strong’s H5422 · used 42 times in 41 verses

Explore it in the Word Atlas

Meaning

1) to pull down, break down, cast down, throw down, beat down, destroy, overthrow, break out (teeth);

How it is translated

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

• pulled down 11
• broke down 5
• will break down 3
• has torn down 3
• pull down 3
• will pull down ! 2
• will pull down 2
• will tear down 2
• tore down 2
• will be broken up 1
• torn down 1
• someone has torn down 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 6 (4), 2 Kings 23 (4), Judges 8 (2), 2 Chronicles 34 (2), Ezekiel 26 (2), Exodus 34 (1), Leviticus 11 (1), Leviticus 14 (1), Deuteronomy 7 (1), Deuteronomy 12 (1)

Forms

• נתץ 9
• נתצו 5
• וינתצו 3
• ולנתוץ 3
• תתצון 2
• יתץ 2
• ונתץ 2
• ויתץ 2
• ויתצו 2
• ויתצהו 2

Words used with it

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

• אֲשֵׁרָה asherah “Asherah” 11
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 16
• בַּעַל baal “Baal” 9
• חוֹמָה chomah “wall” 7
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 7
• גָּדַע gada “to cut down/off” 5
• מַצֵּבָה matstsevah “pillar” 5
• הָרַס haras “to overthrow” 5
• עִיר ir “city” 9
• פָּסִיל pesil “idol” 4
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 5
• דָּקַק daqaq “to crush” 3

Key verses

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

• Deuteronomy 7:5 — But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
• Judges 2:2 — And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
• 2 Chronicles 31:1 — Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and…
• 2 Chronicles 33:3 — For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host…
• 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…
• 2 Chronicles 36:19 — And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels…
• Psalms 52:5 — God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Jeremiah 1:10 — See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
• Jeremiah 18:7 — At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
• Jeremiah 31:28 — And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I…
• Jeremiah 39:8 — And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
• Nahum 1:6 — Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

See all 41 verses in the Word Atlas

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.