# מָחַץ (machats)

Israeli respelling: ma-chats. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4272. 14 Old Testament occurrences.

to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy

King James renderings: dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/machats-h4272

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/8) — 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…
- [Numbers 24:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/17) — I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israe…
- [Deuteronomy 32:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/39) — See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can de…
- [Deuteronomy 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/11) — Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate…
- [Judges 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/26) — She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, whe…
- [2 Samuel 22:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/39) — And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
- [Job 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/18) — For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
- [Job 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/12) — He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
- [Psalms 18:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/38) — I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
- [Psalms 68:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/21) — But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
- [Psalms 68:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/23) — That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
- [Psalms 110:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/110/5) — The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
- [Psalms 110:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/110/6) — He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
- [Habakkuk 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/3/13) — Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the…