222 verses contain “break” (in the KJV: 184, in the BSB: 122) — showing 1–100
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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.
“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you
rebel, you will
tear his yoke from your neck.”
And Jacob was left alone; and there
wrestled a man with him until the
breaking of the day.
And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou
bless me.
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is
daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you
bless me.”
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Come, let us deal
shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war
breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a
boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and
festering boils will
break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses
sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a
boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
So they took
soot from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses
tossed it into the air, and
festering boils broke out on man and beast.
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they
break through unto the LORD to
gaze, and many of them perish.
and the LORD said to him, “Go down and
warn the people not to
break through to see the LORD, lest many of them perish.
And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves, lest the LORD
break forth upon them.
Even the priests who approach the LORD must
consecrate themselves, or the LORD will
break out against them.”
And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.
And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”
If a
thief be found
breaking up, and be
smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
If a
thief is caught
breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of
bloodshed.
If fire
break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed
therewith; he that
kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
If a fire
breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes
stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full
restitution.
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to
demolish them and
smash their sacred stones to pieces.
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
And I said unto them,
Whosoever hath any gold, let them
break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this
calf.
So I said to them, ‘
Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this
calf!”
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Rather, you must
tear down their altars,
smash their sacred stones, and
chop down their Asherah poles.
But the
firstling of an
ass thou shalt
redeem with a lamb: and if thou
redeem him not, then shalt thou
break his neck. All the
firstborn of thy sons thou shalt
redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
And if a
leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the
leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot,
wheresoever the priest looketh;
But if the skin disease
breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the
infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,
And if the plague come again, and
break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath
scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
If the
mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been
torn out and the house has been
scraped and replastered,
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.
It must be
torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its
plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
And if ye shall
despise my statutes, or if your soul
abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye
break my covenant:
and if you
reject My statutes,
despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so
break My covenant,
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
I will
break down your
stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I
abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to
break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not
reject or
despise them so as to destroy them and
break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor
break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the
passover they shall keep it.
they may not leave any of it until morning or
break any of its bones. They must observe the
Passover according to all its statutes.
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an
unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall
break their bones, and
pierce them through with his arrows.
God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to
devour hostile nations and
crush their bones, to
pierce them with arrows.
If a man
vow a
vow unto the LORD, or
swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not
break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
If a man makes a
vow to the LORD or swears an oath to
obligate himself by a
pledge, he must not
break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
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.
Instead, this is what you are to do to them:
tear down their altars,
smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
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.
Tear down their altars,
smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and
wipe out their names from every place.
And the elders of that city shall bring down the
heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the
heifer’s neck there in the valley:
bring the
heifer to a valley with running water that has not been
plowed or sown, and
break its neck there by the stream.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a
whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land,
whither they go to be among them, and will
forsake me, and
break my covenant which I have made with them.
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and
prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will
forsake Me and
break the covenant I have made with them.
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I
sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and
waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and
provoke me, and
break my covenant.
When I have brought them into the land that I
swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and
prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will
reject Me and
break My covenant.
And an angel of the LORD came up from
Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I
sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never
break my covenant with you.
Now the angel of the LORD went up from
Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never
break My covenant with you,
And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
So
Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will
tear down this tower!”
And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of
Jesse? there be many servants now a days that
break away every man from his master.
But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of
Jesse? Many servants these days are
breaking away from their masters.
And they took up
Asahel, and buried him in the
sepulchre of his father, which was in
Bethlehem. And
Joab and his men went all night, and they came to
Hebron at
break of day.
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and
break thy league with
Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and
break your treaty with
Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too
sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to
break through even unto the king of
Edom: but they could not.
When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred
swordsmen to
break through to the king of
Edom, but they could not prevail.
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.
Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
So they came up to
Baal-perazim; and David
smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the
breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place
Baal-perazim.
So David and his men went up to
Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a
bursting flood, God has
burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place
Baal-perazim.
There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go,
break thy league with
Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and
break your treaty with
Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
Should we again
break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be
angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no
remnant nor escaping?
shall we again
break Your commandments and
intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so
angry with us as to
wipe us out, leaving no
remnant or
survivor?
Now
Tobiah the
Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even
break down their stone wall.
Then
Tobiah the
Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to
climb up on what they are building, it would
break down their wall of stones!”
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the
break of
dawn until the stars came out.
Let the stars of the
twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the
dawning of the day:
May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for
daylight; may it not see the
breaking of
dawn.
For he
breaketh me with a
tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
For He would
crush me with a
tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
He
breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a
giant.
He
breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty
warrior.
How long will ye
vex my soul, and
break me in pieces with words?
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Far from human
habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
They came upon me as a wide
breaking in of waters: in the
desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
He shall
break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their
stead.
He
shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place.
And forgetteth that the foot may
crush them, or that the wild beast may
break them.
She forgets that a foot may
crush them, or a wild animal may
trample them.
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of
breakings they
purify themselves.
Let us
break their bands
asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
Thou shalt
break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt
dash them in pieces like a
potter’s vessel.
You will
break them with an iron
scepter; You will
shatter them like pottery.”
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast
smitten all mine enemies upon the
cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Break the arm of the wicked and
evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Though an host should
encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be
confident.
Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.
The voice of the LORD
breaketh the cedars;
yea, the LORD
breaketh the cedars of
Lebanon.
The voice of the LORD
breaks the cedars; the LORD
shatters the cedars of
Lebanon.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep calls to deep in the
roar of Your waterfalls; all Your
breakers and waves have rolled over me.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he
breaketh the bow, and cutteth the
spear in
sunder; he burneth the
chariot in the fire.
He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He
breaks the bow and
shatters the
spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
Thou
breakest the ships of
Tarshish with an east wind.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
O God,
shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD,
tear out the fangs of the lions.
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the
needy, and shall
break in pieces the
oppressor.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
and
smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
if they
violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters,
yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Above the
roar of many waters— the mighty
breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is
majestic.
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and
rejoice, and sing praise.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises!
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
Let the righteous
smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not
break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their
calamities.
Let the righteous man strike me; let his
rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
As when one plows and
breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of
Sheol.
That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no
breaking in, nor going out; that there be no
complaining in our streets.
Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of
lament in our streets.
The beginning of
strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off
contention, before it be
meddled with.
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so
abandon the dispute before it
breaks out.
By long
forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue
breaketh the bone.
Through
patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can
break a bone.
A time to kill, and a time to
heal; a time to
break down, and a time to build up;
a time to kill and a time to
heal, a time to
break down and a time to build,
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and
whoso breaketh an
hedge, a serpent shall
bite him.
He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be
bitten by a
snake.
Until the day
break, and the shadows
flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a
roe or a young
hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Before the day
breaks and shadows
flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a
gazelle or a young
stag on the mountains of Bether.
Until the day
break, and the shadows
flee away, I will get me to the mountain of
myrrh, and to the hill of
frankincense.
Before the day
breaks and the shadows
flee, I will make my way to the mountain of
myrrh and to the hill of
frankincense.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard: I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and
break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down:
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My
vineyard: I will take away its
hedge, and it will be consumed; I will
tear down its wall, and it will be
trampled.
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
That I will
break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains
tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
I will
break Assyria in My land; I will
trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
For it is a day of trouble, and of
treading down, and of
perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of
tumult and
trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision— of
breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.
Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly
threshed. Though the wheels of the
cart roll over it, the horses do not
crush it.
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a
bulge in a high wall, whose
collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
And he shall
break it as the
breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not
spare: so that there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a
sherd to take fire from the
hearth, or to take water
withal out of the pit.
Then shall the
lame man
leap as an
hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert.
Then the
lame will
leap like a deer and the
mute tongue will
shout for joy. For waters will
gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he
break all my bones: from day even to night
wilt thou make an end of me.
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
A
bruised reed shall he not
break, and the smoking flax shall he not
quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it:
shout, ye lower parts of the earth:
break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and
glorified himself in Israel.
Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this;
shout aloud, O depths of the earth.
Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
I will go before thee, and make the
crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in
sunder the bars of iron:
“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and
break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his
afflicted.
Shout for joy, O heavens;
rejoice, O earth;
break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have
compassion on His
afflicted ones.
