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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Pieces

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

121exact KJV occurrences 111Old Testament 10New Testament 25books containing the word 33mapped Strong's IDs 97occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 15:17

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Acts 27:44

And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where pieces appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 77 verses Exodus 43 verses Leviticus 76 verses Joshua 11 verses Judges 44 verses 1 Samuel 33 verses 1 Kings 55 verses 2 Kings 98 verses 2 Chronicles 55 verses Job 44 verses Psalms 99 verses Song of Solomon 11 verses Isaiah 86 verses Jeremiah 137 verses Lamentations 11 verses Ezekiel 33 verses Daniel 1211 verses Hosea 44 verses Micah 44 verses Nahum 33 verses Zechariah 44 verses Matthew 55 verses Mark 11 verses Luke 11 verses Acts 33 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

AramaicH1855
דְּקַק

dᵉqaq · dek-ak'

10 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences

v

to crumble or (trans.) crush

Strong's KJV usage: break to pieces.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Daniel 2:34Strong's last: Daniel 7:23

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HebrewH2865
חָתַת

châthath · khaw-thath'

6 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear

Strong's KJV usage: abolish, affright, be (make) afraid, amaze, beat down, discourage, (cause to) dismay, go down, scare, terrify.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 2:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:2

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AramaicH1917
הַדָּם

haddâm · had-dawm'

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

something stamped to pieces, i.e. a bit

Strong's KJV usage: piece.

Strong's first: Daniel 2:5Strong's last: Daniel 3:29

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GreekG1288
διασπάω

diaspáō · dee-as-pah'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to draw apart, i.e. sever or dismember

Strong's KJV usage: :--pluck asunder, pull in pieces.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 23:10Strong's last: Acts 23:10

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HebrewH1234
בָּקַע

bâqaʻ · baw-kah'

1 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences

v

to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open

Strong's KJV usage: make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 25:12Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 25:12

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HebrewH2966
טְרֵפָה

ṭᵉrêphâh · ter-ay-faw'

1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

prey, i.e. flocks devoured by animals

Strong's KJV usage: ravin, (that which was) torn (of beasts, in pieces).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Ezekiel 4:14Strong's last: Ezekiel 4:14

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HebrewH7489
רָעַע

râʻaʻ · raw-ah'

1 times translated as this KJV form83 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 34:24Strong's last: Job 34:24

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HebrewH7492
רָעַץ

râʻats · raw-ats'

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

v

to break in pieces; figuratively, harass

Strong's KJV usage: dash in pieces, vex.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Exodus 15:6Strong's last: Exodus 15:6

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HebrewH7616
שָׁבָב

shâbâb · shaw-bawb'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a fragment, i.e. ruin

Strong's KJV usage: broken in pieces.

Strong's first: Hosea 8:6Strong's last: Hosea 8:6

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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121 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

1 Samuel 15:33
H8158

And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

1 Kings 11:30
H7168

And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

1 Kings 11:31
H7168

And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

1 Kings 18:23
H5408

Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:

1 Kings 18:33
no direct Strong's tag

And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

1 Kings 19:11
H7665

And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:

2 Kings 2:12
H7168

And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

2 Kings 5:5
no direct Strong's tag

And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

2 Kings 6:25
no direct Strong's tag

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 6:25
no direct Strong's tag

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 11:18
H7665

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 18:4
H3807

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14
H7665

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

2 Kings 24:13
H7112

And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

2 Kings 25:13
H7665

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 23:17
H7665

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 25:12
H1234

And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.

2 Chronicles 28:24
H7112

And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 31:1
H7665

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 34:4
H7665

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.

Job 16:12
H6327

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Job 19:2
no direct Strong's tag

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Job 34:24
H7489

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

Job 40:18
no direct Strong's tag

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

Psalms 2:9
H5310

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

piece

PIECE, noun [Heb. to cut off or clip.]

1. A fragment or part of any thing separated from the whole, in any manner, by cutting, splitting, breaking or tearing; as, to cut in pieces, break in pieces, tear in pieces, pull in pieces, etc.; a piece of a rock; a piece of paper.

2. A part of any thing, though not separated, or separated only in idea; not the whole; a portion; as a piece of excellent knowledge.

3. A distinct part or quantity; a part considered by itself, or separated from the rest only by a boundary or divisional line; as a piece of land in the meadow or on the mountain.

4. A separate part; a thing or portion distinct from others of a like kind; as a piece of timber; a piece of cloth; a piece of paper hangings.

5. A composition, essay or writing of no great length; as a piece of poetry or prose; a piece of music.

6. A separate performance; a distinct portion of labor; as a piece of work.

7. A picture or painting.

If unnatural, the finest colors are but daubing, and the piece is a beautiful monster at the best.

8. A coin; as a piece of eight.

9. A gun or single part of ordnance. We apply the word to a cannon, a mortar, or a musket. Large guns are called battering pieces; smaller guns are called field pieces.

10. In heraldry, an ordinary or charge. The fess, the bend, the pale, the bar, the cross, the saltier, the chevron are called honorable pieces.

11. In ridicule or contempt. A piece of a lawyer is a smatterer.

12. A castle; a building. [Not in use.]

A-piece, to each; as, he paid the men a dollar a-piece.

Of a piece like; of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole. They seemed all of a piece Sometimes followed by with.

The poet must be of a piece with the spectators to gain reputation.

PIECE, verb transitive To enlarge or mend by the addition of a piece; to patch; as, to piece a garment; to piece the time.

To piece out, to extend or enlarge by addition of a piece or pieces.

PIECE, verb intransitive To unite by coalescence of parts; to be compacted, as parts into a whole.

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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