# H4272 מָחַץ

מָחַץ (mâchats), Strong’s H4272: to dash asunder; by implication, to crush, smash or violently plunge; figuratively, to subdue or destroy KJV: dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through…

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

KJV: dip, pierce (through), smite (through), strike through, wound.

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָחַץ vb. smite through, wound severely, shatter

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 24:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=8) — God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his…
- [Numbers 24:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=17) — I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and…
- [Deuteronomy 32:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=39) — “See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who…
- [Deuteronomy 33:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/33?v=11) — LORD, bless his skills. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of…
- [Judges 5:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=26) — She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She…
- [2 Samuel 22:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=39) — I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
- [Habakkuk 3:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/3?v=13) — You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of…
- [Psalms 18:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/18?v=39) — I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
- [Psalms 68:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/68?v=22) — But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
- [Psalms 68:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/68?v=24) — that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your…