haras · tear down; break through

What it means

haras (הָרַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tear down; break through”.

Tear down, throw down; also break through by force.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pull down walls, altars or cities.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• torn down ×12
• tear down ×8
• demolish ×3
• break through ×2
• tear them down ×2
• tears it down ×2
• tore down ×2
• you shall utterly tear them down ×2
• am demolishing ×1
• demolished ×1
• others ×8

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×7
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×8
• Joel×1
• Micah×1
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 15:7

  In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow those who rise against you; you send out your burning anger; it consumes them like stubble.

• Exodus 19:21

  YHWH said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to YHWH to look, and many of them fall.

• Exodus 19:24

  YHWH said to him, “Go, go down, and come up, you and Aaron with you; but the priests and the people must not break through to come up to YHWH, lest he break out against them.”

• Exodus 23:24

  You shall not bow down to their gods or serve them, or do according to their works, but you shall utterly tear them down and smash their standing stones.

• Judges 6:25

  That night YHWH said to him, “Take the bull of the oxen that belongs to your father, and the second bull, seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it.

• 2 Samuel 11:25

  David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing be evil in your eyes, for the sword devours this one as well as that one; press your battle against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”

• 1 Kings 18:30

  Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of YHWH that was torn down.

• 1 Kings 19:10

  He said, “I have been very jealous for YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, for the sons of Israel have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.”

• 1 Kings 19:14

  He said, “I have been very jealous for YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, for the sons of Israel have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.”

• 2 Kings 3:25

  They tore down the cities, and on every good plot of land each one threw his stone and they filled it; they stopped up every spring of water and felled every good tree, until only in Kir-hareseth its stones were left; and the slingers surrounded it and struck it.

• 1 Chronicles 20:1

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings go out, that Joab led out the force of the army and destroyed the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and tore it down.

• Job 12:14

  Look, he tears down, and it is not rebuilt; he shuts in a man, and he is not let out.

• Psalms 11:3

  If the foundations are torn down, what has the righteous done?

• Psalms 28:5

  For they do not understand the works of YHWH nor the work of his hands; he will tear them down and not build them up.

• Psalms 58:6

  Elohim, tear down their teeth in their mouth; the molars of the young lions break, YHWH.

• Proverbs 11:11

  By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

• Proverbs 14:1

  The wise woman builds her house, but folly with her hands tears it down.

• Proverbs 24:31

  and look, it had all grown up in thistles; nettles covered its surface, and its wall of stones was broken down.

• Proverbs 29:4

  A king by justice makes the land stand firm, but a man of contributions tears it down.

• Isaiah 14:17

  who made the world like a wilderness and tore down its cities, and his prisoners he did not release to their home?’

• Isaiah 22:19

  And I will thrust you from your position, and from your office he will pull you down.

• Isaiah 49:17

  Your children hurry; those who tear you down and those who lay you waste will go out from you.

• Jeremiah 1:10

  See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.”

• Jeremiah 24:6

  And I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; and I will build them and not tear them down; and I will plant them and not uproot them.

• Jeremiah 31:28

  And it will happen that as I have watched over them to uproot and to tear down, to demolish and to destroy and to bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 31:40

  And the whole valley of the corpses and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holiness to YHWH; it will not be uprooted or demolished anymore, forever.”

• Jeremiah 42:10

  If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you and not demolish you, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I have relented concerning the evil that I have done to you.

• Jeremiah 45:4

  Thus you shall say to him, ‘Thus says YHWH: Look, what I have built, I am demolishing, and what I have planted, I am uprooting; and this I do to the whole land itself.

• Jeremiah 50:15

  Raise a shout against her all around; she has given her hand; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are torn down; for it is the vengeance of YHWH: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.

• Lamentations 2:2

  Adonai has swallowed up and has not pitied all the pastures of Jacob; he has torn down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

• Lamentations 2:17

  YHWH has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his saying that he commanded from the days of old; he has torn down and has not pitied; and he has made the enemy rejoice over you; he has raised the horn of your adversaries.

• Ezekiel 13:14

  And I will tear down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the earth, and its foundation will be laid bare; and it will fall, and you will be consumed in its midst; and you will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 16:39

  And I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound and demolish your lofty places, and they will strip you of your garments and take your objects of beauty, and leave you naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 26:4

  And they will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.

• Ezekiel 26:12

  And they will despoil your wealth and plunder your merchandise, and tear down your walls, and your houses of delight they will demolish; and your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters they will put.

• Ezekiel 30:4

  And a sword will come against Egypt, and there will be shuddering in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and they take away her multitude, and her foundations are torn down.

• Ezekiel 36:35

  And they will say, “This land, the desolate one, has become like the garden of Eden; and the ruined cities, and the desolate and the torn down, are fortified and inhabited.”

• Ezekiel 36:36

  And the nations that are left around you will know that I, YHWH, have built what was torn down, and planted what was desolate; I, YHWH, have spoken, and I will do it.

• Ezekiel 38:20

  And they will quake before me, the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the animals of the field, and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground, and every human being that is on the face of the ground; and the mountains will be thrown down, and the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the earth.

• Joel 1:17

  The seeds have shriveled under their clods; the storehouses are desolate, the granaries torn down, for the grain has dried up.

And 3 more times.