nafats · scatter, spread

What it means

nafats (נָפַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scatter, spread”.

Spread out, scatter over a territory; also shatter.

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 break something into pieces with force.
2. To spread out in every direction, like a people scattering.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• I will shatter ×9
• I will break them up ×1
• I will dash them ×1
• crushed to pieces ×1
• dashes ×1
• scatter ×1
• scattered ×1
• shattered ×1
• shattering ×1
• smashed ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×12
• Daniel×1

• Genesis 9:19

  These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread out.

• Judges 7:19

  Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the watch in the middle, when they had just set the guards; and they blew the horns and smashed the jars that were in their hand.

• 1 Samuel 13:11

  Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and you did not come within the appointed time of the days, and the Philistines were gathered at Michmash,

• 1 Kings 5:9

  My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts on the sea to the place that you will send word to me, and I will break them up there, and you will carry them away; and you will do my pleasure by giving food for my house.”

• Psalms 2:9

  You will break them with a rod of iron; like a vessel of a potter you will dash them to pieces.”

• Psalms 137:9

  Happy is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

• Isaiah 11:12

  And he will raise a banner for the nations, and gather the banished of Israel, and the scattered of Judah he will assemble from the four corners of the earth.

• Isaiah 27:9

  Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be expiated, and this is all the fruit of removing his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like stones of chalk crushed to pieces, Asherahs and incense altars will not rise.

• Isaiah 33:3

  At the sound of the tumult peoples flee; when you rise up nations scatter.

• Jeremiah 13:14

  And I will dash them one against another, the fathers and the sons together, declares YHWH; I will not show pity, nor spare, nor have compassion that would keep me from destroying them.’”

• Jeremiah 22:28

  Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel, or an object in which there is no delight? Why have they been hurled out, he and his offspring, and cast into the land that they have not known?

• Jeremiah 48:12

  Therefore, look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will send to him pourers, and they will pour him off, and his vessels they will empty, and their jars they will smash.

• Jeremiah 51:20

  A club are you for me, weapons of war; and I will shatter with you nations, and I will destroy with you kingdoms;

• Jeremiah 51:21

  and I will shatter with you horse and its rider; and I will shatter with you chariot and its rider;

• Jeremiah 51:22

  and I will shatter with you man and woman; and I will shatter with you old man and boy; and I will shatter with you young man and virgin;

• Jeremiah 51:23

  and I will shatter with you shepherd and his flock; and I will shatter with you farmer and his team; and I will shatter with you governors and prefects.

• Daniel 12:7

  And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, and he raised his right hand and his left hand to the heavens and swore by the one who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be completed.

And 5 more times.