# H2040 הָרַס

הָרַס (hâraç), Strong’s H2040: to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy KJV: beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin…. Occurs 43 times.

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*hâraç* — to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy

KJV: beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin…

Occurs 43 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- הָרַס vb. throw down, break or tear down
- Qal
- 1 throw down, tear down
- 2 break down, break away
- 3 break through
- Niph. be thrown or torn down
- Pi. overthrow, tear down

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 15:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=7) — In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes…
- [Exodus 19:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=21) — The LORD said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
- [Exodus 19:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=24) — The LORD said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break…
- [Exodus 23:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=24) — You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them…
- [Judges 6:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=25) — That same night, the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down…
- [2 Samuel 11:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/11?v=25) — Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as…
- [1 Kings 18:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=30) — Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the LORD’s altar…
- [1 Kings 19:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/19?v=10) — He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your…
- [1 Kings 19:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/19?v=14) — He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your…
- [2 Kings 3:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/3?v=25) — They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped…