Judges 8:7
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
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Tear
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Zechariah 11:16
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
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טָרַף
ṭâraph · taw-raf'
3 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)
Strong's KJV usage: catch, × without doubt, feed, ravin, rend in pieces, × surely, tear (in pieces).
Strong's first: Psalms 7:2Strong's last: Amos 1:11
Open full H2963 profile →קָרַע
qâraʻ · kaw-rah'
3 times translated as this KJV form64 total Strong's occurrences
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
Strong's KJV usage: cut out, rend, × surely, tear.
Strong's first: Psalms 35:15Strong's last: Ezekiel 13:21
Open full H7167 profile →בָּקַע
bâqaʻ · baw-kah'
1 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Strong's first: Hosea 13:8Strong's last: Hosea 13:8
Open full H1234 profile →דּוּשׁ
dûwsh · doosh
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to trample or thresh
Strong's KJV usage: break, tear, thresh, tread out (down), at grass (Jeremiah 50:11, by mistake for 1877).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 8:7Strong's last: Judges 8:7
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çâchab · saw-khab'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to trail along
Strong's KJV usage: draw (out), tear.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 15:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 15:3
Open full H5498 profile →פָּרַס
pâraç · paw-ras'
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to break in pieces, i.e. (usually without violence) to split, distribute
Strong's KJV usage: deal, divide, have hoofs, part, tear.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 16:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 16:7
Open full H6536 profile →פָּרַק
pâraq · paw-rak'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
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: Zechariah 11:16Strong's last: Zechariah 11:16
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H1758
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
H2963
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
H7167
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
no direct Strong's tag
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
H5498
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
H6536
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
H7167
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
H7167
Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
H2963
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
H1234
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
H2963
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
no direct Strong's tag
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
H6561
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
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tear
TEAR, noun
1. Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them. A tear in the singular, is a drop or a small quantity of that fluid. Tears are excited by passions, particularly by grief. This fluid is also called forth by any injury done to the eye. It serves to moisten the cornea and preserve its transparency, and to remove any dust or fine substance that enters the eye and gives pain.
2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.
TEAR, verb transitive [Latin tero.]
1. To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh. We use tear and rip in different senses. To tear is to rend or separate the texture of cloth; to rip is to open a seam, to separate parts sewed together.
2. To wound; to lacerate.
The women beat their breasts, their cheeks they tear
3. To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
4. To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
5. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
6. To remove by violence; to break up.
Or on rough seas from their foundation torn.
7. To make a violent rent.
In the midst, a tearing groan did break
The name of Antony.
To tear from, to separate and take away by force; as an isle torn from its possessor.
The hand of fate
Has torn thee from me.
To tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip.
To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear out the eyes.
To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundations of government or order.
TEAR, verb intransitive To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.
TEAR, noun A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]
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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