natats · tear down

What it means

natats (נָתַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tear down”.

Pull down, break down.

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 altars, houses or walls.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• tore down ×10
• he tore down ×7
• tear down ×5
• you shall tear down ×4
• demolish ×3
• tore it down ×2
• He tears me down ×1
• are broken down ×1
• are torn down ×1
• break ×1
• others ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×8
• 2 Kings×8
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×7
• Ezekiel×3
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 34:13

  But their altars you shall tear down, and their standing stones you shall break, and their Asherahs you shall cut down.

• Leviticus 11:35

  And anything on which any of their carcasses falls will be unclean; an oven or a stove shall be broken down; they are unclean, and they shall be unclean for you.

• Leviticus 14:45

  He shall tear down the house, its stones and its timbers and all the clay of the house, and carry them out to outside the city, to an unclean place.

• Deuteronomy 7:5

  But thus you shall do to them: their altars you shall tear down, their standing stones you shall break, their Asherahs you shall cut down, and their carved images you shall burn with fire.

• Deuteronomy 12:3

  You shall tear down their altars, smash their standing stones, burn their Asherahs with fire, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place.

• Judges 2:2

  and you, you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; their altars you shall tear down.’ But you have not listened to my voice. What is this you have done?

• Judges 6:28

  The men of the city rose early in the morning, and look, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah that was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.

• Judges 6:30

  The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal and has cut down the Asherah that was beside it.”

• Judges 6:31

  Joash said to all who stood around him, “Are you going to contend for Baal? Or are you going to save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has torn down his altar.”

• Judges 6:32

  So on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, “Let Baal contend with him, because he tore down his altar.”

• Judges 8:9

  So he said also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I return in peace, I will tear down this tower.”

• Judges 8:17

  And he tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

• Judges 9:45

  Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

• 2 Kings 10:27

  They tore down the standing stone of Baal, and they tore down the house of Baal and made it into latrines to this day.

• 2 Kings 11:18

  All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; its altars and its images they smashed thoroughly, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they killed before the altars. And the priest set guards over the house of YHWH.

• 2 Kings 23:7

  He tore down the houses of the sacred male prostitutes that were in the house of YHWH, where the women wove houses for the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 23:8

  He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and made unclean the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he tore down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the chief of the city, which were on a man’s left at the gate of the city.

• 2 Kings 23:12

  The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of YHWH, the king tore down and broke them from there, and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who made Israel sin, even that altar and the high place he tore down; and he burned the high place, ground it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 25:10

  And the walls around Jerusalem all the force of the Chaldeans that was with the chief of the guard tore down.

• 2 Chronicles 23:17

  All the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; its altars and its images they smashed, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they killed before the altars.

• 2 Chronicles 31:1

  When all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the standing stones, cut down the Asherahs, and tore down the high places and the altars from all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had finished. Then all the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession, to their cities.

• 2 Chronicles 33:3

  He built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had torn down; he erected altars for the Baals and made Asherahs, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  he tore down the altars, and the Asherahs and the carved images he crushed to dust, and all the incense altars he cut down throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  They burned the house of Elohim and tore down the wall of Jerusalem; and all its palaces they burned with fire, and all its precious objects they destroyed.

• Job 19:10

  He tears me down on every side, and I am gone; and he uproots like a tree my hope.

• Psalms 52:5

  El also will tear you down forever; he will seize you and tear you away from your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

• Psalms 58:6

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

• Isaiah 22:10

  And the houses of Jerusalem you counted, and you tore down the houses to fortify the wall.

• 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 4:26

  I looked, and look, the orchard land was the wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before YHWH, before his burning anger.

• Jeremiah 18:7

  At one moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot and to tear down and to destroy;

• 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 33:4

  For thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah that are torn down for the siege ramps and for the sword:

• Jeremiah 39:8

  And the house of the king and the house of the people the Chaldeans burned with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they tore down.

• Jeremiah 52:14

  And all the walls around Jerusalem all the force of the Chaldeans that was with the chief of the guard tore down.

• 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 26:9

  And the blow of his battering ram he will set against your walls, and your towers he will demolish with his swords.

• 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.

And 2 more times.