machats · shatter, crush

What it means

machats (מָחַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shatter, crush”.

Shatter: strike hard until it breaks or is crushed.

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 strike until broken; God wounds and heals.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• crush ×3
• he will shatter ×2
• I have crushed ×1
• I shattered them ×1
• crushed them ×1
• he shattered ×1
• he shatters ×1
• shall shatter ×1
• shatter them ×1
• she shattered ×1
• others ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Habakkuk×1

• Numbers 24:8

  El brings him out of Egypt; he has as it were the horns of the wild ox. He shall devour the nations, his adversaries, and break their bones, and with his arrows shatter them.

• Numbers 24:17

  I see him, but not now; I gaze on him, but not near. A star shall march forth from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall shatter the temples of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth.

• Deuteronomy 32:39

  See now that I, I am he, and there is no god with me. I put to death and I make alive; I have crushed and I will heal, and there is no one who delivers from my hand.

• Deuteronomy 33:11

  Bless, YHWH, his strength, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of those who rise up against him and of those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.”

• Judges 5:26

  Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

• 2 Samuel 22:39

  I consumed them and crushed them, and they do not rise; they fell under my feet.

• Job 5:18

  For he causes pain and binds up; he shatters, and his hands heal.

• Job 26:12

  By his strength he stilled the sea, and by his insight he shattered Rahab.

• Psalms 18:38

  I shattered them, and they could not rise; they fell under my feet.

• Psalms 68:21

  Surely Elohim will crush the head of his enemies, the hairy crown of the one who walks in his guilt.

• Psalms 68:23

  so that your foot may crush in blood, and the tongue of your dogs have its share from the enemies.”

• Psalms 110:5

  Adonai is at your right hand; he will shatter kings in the day of his wrath.

• Psalms 110:6

  He will judge among the nations; he will fill them with corpses; he will shatter the head over a wide land.

• Habakkuk 3:13

  You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed; you shattered the head of the house of the wicked, laying bare the foundation up to the neck. Selah.