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And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Read in context →For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
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shâbar · shaw-bar'
to burst (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, × quite, tear, view (by mistake for 7663).
Strong's first: Genesis 19:9Strong's last: Nahum 1:13
Open full H7665 profile →pârar · paw-rar'
to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate
Strong's KJV usage: × any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, × clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, × utterly, make void.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:15Strong's last: Zechariah 11:14
Open full H6565 profile →châlal · khaw-lal'
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Strong's KJV usage: begin (× men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Strong's first: Numbers 30:2Strong's last: Psalms 89:34
Open full H2490 profile →diorýssō · dee-or-oos'-so
to penetrate burglariously
Strong's KJV usage: :--break through (up).
Strong's first: Matthew 6:19Strong's last: Matthew 6:20
Open full G1358 profile →kláō · klah'-o
to break (specially, of bread)
Strong's KJV usage: :--break.
Strong's first: Acts 20:7Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 10:16
Open full G2806 profile →gâram · gaw-ram'
(causative) to bone, i.e. denude (by extensive, craunch) the bones
Strong's KJV usage: gnaw the bones, break.
Strong's first: Numbers 24:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:34
Open full H1633 profile →nâthaq · naw-thak'
to tear off
Strong's KJV usage: break (off), burst, draw (away), lift up, pluck (away, off), pull (out), root out.
Strong's first: Psalms 2:3Strong's last: Isaiah 58:6
Open full H5423 profile →pûwach · poo'akh
to puff, i.e. blow with the breath or air; hence, to fan (as a breeze), to utter, to kindle (a fire), to scoff
Strong's KJV usage: blow (upon), break, puff, bring into a snare, speak, utter.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 2:17Strong's last: Song of Solomon 4:6
Open full H6315 profile →pâraq · paw-rak'
to break off or crunch; figuratively, to deliver
Strong's KJV usage: break (off), deliver, redeem, rend (in pieces), tear in pieces.
Strong's first: Genesis 27:40Strong's last: Exodus 32:24
Open full H6561 profile →râʻaʻ · raw-ah'
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
Strong's first: Psalms 2:9Strong's last: Jeremiah 15:12
Open full H7489 profile →katágnymi · kat-ag'-noo-mee
to rend in pieces, i.e. crack apart
Strong's KJV usage: :--break.
Strong's first: Matthew 12:20Strong's last: Matthew 12:20
Open full G2608 profile →lýō · loo'-o
to "loosen" (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--break (up), destroy, dissolve, (un-)loose, melt, put off.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:19Strong's last: Matthew 5:19
Open full G3089 profile →rhḗgnymi · hrayg'-noo-mee
to "break," "wreck" or "crack", i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts; G2608 being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and G2352 a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like G3089) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions
Strong's KJV usage: :--break (forth), burst, rend, tear.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:17Strong's last: Matthew 9:17
Open full G4486 profile →synthrýptō · soon-throop'-to
to crush together, i.e. (figuratively) to dispirit
Strong's KJV usage: :--break.
Strong's first: Acts 21:13Strong's last: Acts 21:13
Open full G4919 profile →dûwsh · doosh
to trample or thresh
Strong's KJV usage: break, tear, thresh, tread out (down), at grass (Jeremiah 50:11, by mistake for 1877).
Strong's first: Job 39:15Strong's last: Job 39:15
Open full H1758 profile →dâkâʼ · daw-kaw'
to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
Strong's first: Job 19:2Strong's last: Job 19:2
Open full H1792 profile →hâmam · haw-mam'
properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy
Strong's KJV usage: break, consume, crush, destroy, discomfit, trouble, vex.
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:28Strong's last: Isaiah 28:28
Open full H2000 profile →hâraç · haw-ras'
to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy
Strong's KJV usage: beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, × utterly.
Strong's first: Psalms 58:6Strong's last: Psalms 58:6
Open full H2040 profile →nûwʼ · noo
to refuse, forbid, dissuade, or neutralize
Strong's KJV usage: break, disallow, discourage, make of none effect.
Strong's first: Psalms 141:5Strong's last: Psalms 141:5
Open full H5106 profile →nâphats · naw-fats'
to dash to pieces, or scatter
Strong's KJV usage: be beaten in sunder, break (in pieces), broken, dash (in pieces), cause to be discharged, dispersed, be overspread, scatter.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 48:12Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:12
Open full H5310 profile →ʻâbaṭ · aw-bat'
to pawn; causatively, to lend (on security); figuratively, to entangle
Strong's KJV usage: borrow, break (ranks), fetch (a pledge), lend, × surely.
Strong's first: Joel 2:7Strong's last: Joel 2:7
Open full H5670 profile →ʻârats · aw-rats'
to awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass
Strong's KJV usage: be affrighted (afraid, dread, feared, terrified), break, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, shake terribly.
Strong's first: Job 13:25Strong's last: Job 13:25
Open full H6206 profile →pâtsach · paw-tsakh'
to break out (in joyful sound)
Strong's KJV usage: break (forth, forth into joy), make a loud noise.
Strong's first: Micah 3:3Strong's last: Micah 3:3
Open full H6476 profile →pârach · paw-rakh'
to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom; generally, to spread; specifically, to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively, to flourish
Strong's KJV usage: × abroad, × abundantly, blossom, break forth (out), bud, flourish, make fly, grow, spread, spring (up).
Strong's first: Leviticus 14:43Strong's last: Leviticus 14:43
Open full H6524 profile →râtsats · raw-tsats'
to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 29:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 29:7
Open full H7533 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
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BREAK, verb transitive preterit tense broke, [brake.obs.] participle passive broke or broken.
[Latin frango, fregi, n casual; Heb.to break to free or deliver, to separate.]
1. To part or divide by force and violence, as a solid substance; to rend apart; as, to break a band; to break a thread or a cable.
2. To burst or open by force.
The fountains of the earth were broke open.
3. To divide by piercing or penetrating; to burst forth; as, the light breaks through the clouds.
4. To make breaches or gaps by battering, as in a wall.
5. To destroy, crush, weaken, or impair, as the human body or constitution.
6. To sink; to appall or subdue; as, to break the spirits, or the passions.
7. To crush; to shatter; to dissipate the strength of, as of an army.
8. To weaken, or impair, as the faculties.
9. To tame; to train to obedience; to make tractable; as, to break a horse.
10. To make bankrupt.
11. To discard, dismiss or cashier; as, to break an officer.
12. To crack, to part or divide, as the skin; to open, as an aposteme.
13. To violate, as a contract or promise, either by a positive act contrary to the promise, or by neglect or non-fulfillment.
14. To infringe or violate, as a law, or any moral obligation, either by a positive act or by an omission of what is required.
15. To stop; to interrupt; to cause to cease; as, to break conversation; to break sleep.
16. To intercept; to check; to lessen the force of; as, to break a fall, or a blow.
17. To separate; to part; as, to break company of friendship.
18. To dissolve any union; sometimes with off; as, to break off a connection.
19. To cause to abandon; to reform or cause to reform; as, to break one of ill habits or practices.
20. To open as a purpose; to propound something new; to make a first disclosure of opinions; as, to break one's mind.
21. To frustrate; to prevent.
If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design.
22. To take away; as, to break the whole staff of bread. Psalms 105:1.
23. To stretch; to strain; to rack; as, to break one on the wheel.
To break the back, to strain or dislocate the vertebers with too heavy a burden; also, to disable one's fortune.
To break bulk, to begin to unload.
To break a deer, to cut it up at table.
To breakfast, to eat the first meal in the day, but used as a compound word.
To break ground, to plow.
To break ground, to dig; to open trenches.
To break the heart, to afflict grievously; to cause great sorrow or grief; to depress with sorrow or despair.
To break a jest, to utter a jest unexpected.
To break the neck, to dislocate the joints of the neck.
To break off, to put a sudden stop to; to interrupt; to discontinue.
BREAK off thy sins by righteousness. Daniel 4:27.
1. To sever; to divide; as, to break off a twig.
To break sheer, in marine language. When a ship at anchor is in a position to keep clear of the anchor, but is forced by wind or current out of that position, she breaks her sheer.
To break up, to dissolve or put an end to; as, to break up house-keeping.
1. To open or lay open; as, to break up a bed of earth.
2. To plow ground the first time, or after lying long unplowed; a common use in the U. States.
3. To separate; as, to break up a company.
4. To disband; as, to break up an army.
To break upon the wheel, to stretch and break the bones by torture upon the wheel.
To break wind, to give vent to wind from the body backward.
BREAK, verb intransitive To part; to separate; to divide in two; as, the ice breaks; a band breaks.
1. To burst; as, a storm or deluge breaks.
2. To burst, by dashing against something; as, a wave breaks upon a rock.
3. To open, as a tumor or aposteme.
4. To open, as the morning; to show the first light; to dawn.
5. To burst forth; to utter or exclaim.
6. To fail in trade or other occupation; to become bankrupt.
7. To decline in health and strength; to begin to lose the natural vigor.
8. To issue out with vehemence.
9. To make way with violence or suddenness; to rush; often with a particle; as, to break in; to break in upon, as calamities; to break over, as a flood; to break out, as a fire; to break forth, as light or a sound.
10. To come to an explanation.
I am to break with thee upon some affairs. [I believe, antiquated.]
11. To suffer an interruption of friendship; to fall out.
Be not afraid to break with traitors.
12. To faint, flag or pant.
My soul breaketh for longing to thy judgments. Psalms 119:20.
To break away, to disengage itself from; to rush from; also, to dissolve itself or dissipate, as fog or clouds.
To break forth, to issue out.
To break from, to disengage from; to depart abruptly, or with vehemence.
To break in, to enter by force; to enter unexpectedly; to intrude.
To break loose, to get free by force; to escape from confinement by violence; to shake off restraint.
To break off, to part; to divide; also, to desist suddenly.
To break off from, to part from with violence.
To break out, to issue forth; to discover itself by its effects, to arise or spring up; as, a fire breaks out; a sedition breaks out; a fever breaks out.
1. To appear in eruptions, as pustules; to have pustules, or an efflorescence on the skin, as a child breaks out. Hence we have freckle from the root of break
2. To throw off restraint, and become dissolute.
To break up, to dissolve itself and separate; as a company breaks up; a meeting breaks up; a fog breaks up; but more generally we say, fog, mist or clouds break away.
To break with, to part in enmity; to cease to be friends; as, to break with a friend or companion.
This verb carries with it its primitive sense of straining, parting, severing, bursting, often with violence, with the consequential senses of injury, defect and infirmity.
BREAK, noun A state of being open, or the act of separating; an opening made by force; an open place. It is the same word as brack, differently written and pronounced.
1. A pause; an interruption.
2. A line in writing or printing, noting a suspension of the sense, or a stop in the sentence.
3. In a ship, the break of the deck is the part where it terminates, and the descent on to the next deck below commences.
4. The first appearance of light in the morning; the dawn; as the break of day.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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