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title: נָפַץ — shatter · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָפַץ (5310), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: shatter. BDB 1906: vb. shatter Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָפַץ

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«נָפַץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shatter** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 18 times · **Key:** 5310 · **BDB:** נָפַץ

### Glosses

I.smash (9); I (2); he.will.smash (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָפַץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5310/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.'

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

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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.

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