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Strong's H5422 נָתַץ (nathats)

Nathats means “tear down” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G5422 — phrenapatao (“deceive”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H5422
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 41
Books 12

Strong's H5422 Quick Answer

Strong's H5422 נָתַץ (nathats) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nathats (naw-thats') v. 1. to tear down [a primitive root] It has 41 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include down, destroyed, out, and break. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
nathats (naw-thats') v. 1. to tear down [a primitive root]
Usage
41 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
down, destroyed, out, and break

Meaning and Definition

nathats (naw-thats') v. 1. to tear down [a primitive root] KJV: beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.

Original Word
נָתַץ
Transliteration
nathats
Derivation
Root: נתץ
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5422. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to tear

Usage: 1) to pull down, break down, cast down, throw down, beat down, destroy, overthrow, break out (teeth) 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pull down 1a2) to break down, break off 1b) (Niphal) to be pulled or broken down 1c) (Piel) to tear down 1d) (Pual) to be torn down 1e) (Hophal) to be broken, be broken down

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How Strong's H5422 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nathats, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

down Exodus 34:13 38× break Psalms 58:6 destroyed Job 19:10 out Psalms 52:5

How Strong's H5422 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 41 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5422 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5422 in the Old Testament

41 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 34:13 KJV

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Leviticus 11:35 KJV

And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you.

Leviticus 14:45 KJV

And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Usage Excerpts

First 41 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5422.

Exodus 34:13 Old Testament, KJV
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Leviticus 11:35 Old Testament, KJV
And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you.
Leviticus 14:45 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
Deuteronomy 7:5 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Deuteronomy 12:3 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Judges 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
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?
Judges 6:28 Old Testament, KJV
And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
Judges 6:30 Old Testament, KJV
Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
Judges 6:31 Old Testament, KJV
And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
Judges 6:32 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
Judges 8:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Judges 8:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
Judges 9:45 Old Testament, KJV
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
2 Kings 10:27 Old Testament, KJV
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
2 Kings 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 23:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Kings 23:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2 Kings 23:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2 Kings 23:15 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Kings 25:10 Old Testament, KJV
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
2 Chronicles 23:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
2 Chronicles 31:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 33:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles 34:4 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 34:7 Old Testament, KJV
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:19 Old Testament, KJV
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 thereof.
Job 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Psalms 52:5 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 58:6 Old Testament, KJV
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Isaiah 22:10 Old Testament, KJV
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
Jeremiah 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 4:26 Old Testament, KJV
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 18:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:4 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
Jeremiah 39:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:14 Old Testament, KJV
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Ezekiel 16:39 Old Testament, KJV
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
Ezekiel 26:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Ezekiel 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Nahum 1:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5422, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 8 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 7 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H5422 FAQ

What does nathats (נָתַץ) mean?

Nathats (Strong's H5422) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "tear down". nathats (naw-thats') v. 1. to tear down [a primitive root]

How many times is nathats (נָתַץ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 41 linked usages for Strong's H5422 across 12 books.

Where can I study nathats (נָתַץ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5422 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate nathats (נָתַץ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as down, destroyed, out, and break. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.