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brāk : שׁבר , shabhar = "break" (down, off, in pieces, up), "destroy," "quench" (Isaiah 14:25; Jeremiah 19:10 , Jeremiah 19:11; Ezekiel 4:16; Amos 1:5 ); פרק , pāraḳ = "to break off" or "craunch"; figuratively "to deliver" (Genesis 27:40 the King James Version); ערף , ‛āraph = "to break the neck," hence, "to destroy" (Exodus 13:13 ); הרס , hāraṣ = "to break through" (Exodus 19:21 , Exodus 19:24 ); פרץ , pārac = "to break" (forth, away), occurs in Exodus 19:22 , Exodus 19:24; 1 Samuel 25:10; "breaking faith," Hosea 4:2; פרח , pāraḥ = "to break forth as a bud" (Leviticus 13:12 ); נתץ , nāthac or נתך , nāthaḳ = "destroy" (Ezekiel 23:34 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "gnaw"; see BREAST ); חלל , ḥālal = "profane," "defile," "stain" (Numbers 30:2; Psalm 89:31 , Psalm 89:34 ); בּקע , bāḳa‛ = "rip open" (2 Kings 3:26; Isaiah 58:8 ); רעע , rā‛a‛ = "to spoil by breaking to pieces," "to make good for nothing" (Job 34:24; Psalm 2:9; Jeremiah 15:12 , the King James Version "Shall iron break northern iron?"); פצח , pācaḥ = "to break out" (in joyful sound), "break forth," "make a noise" (Isaiah 14:7 , the nations rejoice in the peace which follows the fall of the oppressor); ניר , nı̄r = "to glisten," "gleam" (as of a fresh furrow) (Jeremiah 4:3; Hosea 10:12 ); פתח , pāthaḥ = "to open wide," "loosen," "have vent" (Jeremiah 1:14 ); נפץ , nāphac = "to dash to pieces or scatter," "overspread," "scatter" (Jeremiah 48:12 , the work usually done carefully shall be done roughly; Jeremiah 51:20-23 , descriptive of the terrible fate appointed for Babylon); נאף , nā'aph = "to break wedlock" (Ezekiel 16:38 ); צלח , cālaḥ or צלח , cālēaḥ = "break out," "come mightily" (Amos 5:6 ). The New Testament employs λύω , lúō = "to loosen," "dissolve" (Matthew 5:19 ); διορύσσω , diorússō = "to penetrate burglariously," "break through" (Matthew 6:19 , Matthew 6:20 , Greek "dig through"); ῥήγνυμι , rhḗgnumi or ῥήσσω , rhḗssō = "to disrupt," "burst," "to utter with a loud voice" (Galatians 4:27 ); κλάω , kláō = "to break" (Acts 20:7 , "to break bread," i.e. to celebrate the Lord's Supper; 1 Corinthians 10:16 ). See also BREACH .
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Break'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/b/break.html. 1915.
