'Broken' in the Bible

If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. Then she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

A clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it must be scoured and rinsed with water.

The priest will make an examination, and if the spot seems to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease that has broken out in the boil.

the priest is to examine it. If the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease.

the priest is to make an examination. If the spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is only a rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

But if it reappears in the fabric, the warp or woof, or any leather article, it has broken out again. You must burn up whatever is contaminated.

Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the Lord’s word and broken His command; his guilt remains on him.”

All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman with a broken heart. I haven’t had any wine or beer; I’ve been pouring out my heart before the Lord.

The bows of the warriors are broken,but the feeble are clothed with strength.

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, both Dagon’s head and the palms of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,

Then Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you formed an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord has broken up what you have made.” So the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.

Then Hezekiah strengthened his position by rebuilding the entire broken-down wall and heightening the towers and the other outside wall. He repaired the supporting terraces of the city of David, and made an abundance of weapons and shields.

They said to me, “The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned down.”

I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Serpent’s Well and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.

The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,but the fangs of young lions are broken.

My spirit is broken.My days are extinguished.A graveyard awaits me.

The womb forgets them;worms feed on them;they are remembered no more.So injustice is broken like a tree.

Light is withheld from the wicked,and the arm raised in violence is broken.

I am forgotten: gone from memorylike a dead person—like broken pottery.

He protects all his bones;not one of them is broken.

Their swords will enter their own hearts,and their bows will be broken.

For the arms of the wicked will be broken,but the Lord supports the righteous.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

For the choir director: according to “The Lily of Testimony.” A Davidic Miktam for teaching. When he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, killing 12,000.God, You have rejected us;You have broken out against us;You have been angry. Restore us!

Insults have broken my heart,and I am in despair.I waited for sympathy,but there was none;for comforters, but found no one.

Why have You broken down its wallsso that all who pass by pick its fruit?

You have broken down all his walls;You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

He has broken my strength in midcourse;He has shortened my days.

For He has broken down the bronze gatesand cut through the iron bars.

It is time for the Lord to act,for they have violated Your instruction.

A joyful heart makes a face cheerful,but a sad heart produces a broken spirit.

A joyful heart is good medicine,but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

A man’s spirit can endure sickness,but who can survive a broken spirit?

A man who does not control his temperis like a city whose wall is broken down. >

One who becomes stiff-necked,after many reprimandswill be shattered instantly—beyond recovery.

And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

before the silver cord is snapped,and the gold bowl is broken,and the jar is shattered at the spring,and the wheel is broken into the well;

None of them grows weary or stumbles;no one slumbers or sleeps.No belt is looseand no sandal strap broken.

Band together, peoples, and be broken;pay attention, all you distant lands;prepare for war, and be broken;prepare for war, and be broken.

Many will stumble over these;they will fall and be broken;they will be snared and captured.

On that dayhis burden will fall from your shoulders,and his yoke from your neck.The yoke will be broken because of fatness.

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,the scepter of the rulers.

Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,because the rod of the one who struck you is broken.For a viper will come from the root of a snake,and from its egg comes a flying serpent.

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,for they have transgressed teachings,overstepped decrees,and broken the everlasting covenant.

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.Women will come and make fires with them,for they are not a people with understanding.Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Then the word of the Lord came to them:“Law after law, law after law,line after line, line after line,a little here, a little there,”so they go stumbling backward,to be broken, trapped, and captured.

The highways are deserted;travel has ceased.An agreement has been broken,cities despised,and human life disregarded.

Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins;you will restore the foundations laid long ago;you will be called the repairer of broken walls,the restorer of streets where people live.

My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,but you will cry out from an anguished heart,and you will lament out of a broken spirit.

The men of Memphis and Tahpanheshave also broken your skull.

I will go to the powerfuland speak to them.Surely they know the way of the Lord,the justice of their God.However, these also had broken the yokeand torn off the chains.

I am broken by the brokennessof my dear people.I mourn; horror has taken hold of me.

Concerning the prophets:My heart is broken within me,and all my bones tremble.I have become like a drunkard,like a man overcome by wine,because of the Lord,because of His holy words.

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke bar from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet:

then also My covenant with My servant David may be broken so that he will not have a son reigning on his throne, and the Levitical priests will not be My ministers.

In the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.

“How broken it is! They wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is ashamed. Moab will become a laughingstock and a shock to all those around him.”

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled. They left the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.

נ NunMy transgressions have been formed into a yoke,fastened together by His hand;they have been placed on my neck,and the Lord has broken my strength.He has handed me overto those I cannot withstand.

ר ReshLord, see how I am in distress.I am churning within;my heart is broken,for I have been very rebellious.Outside, the sword takes the children;inside, there is death.

“But you, son of man, groan! Groan bitterly with a broken heart right before their eyes.

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged—no medicine has been applied and no splint put on to bandage it so that it can grow strong enough to handle a sword.

Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Look! I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.

Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

All Israel has broken Your law and turned away, refusing to obey You. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him.

But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and divided to the four winds of heaven, but not to his descendants; it will not be the same kingdom that he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and will go to others besides them.

The seeds lie shriveled in their casings.The storehouses are in ruin,and the granaries are broken down,because the grain has withered away.

I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

[Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whoever it falls, it will grind him to powder!]”

But know this: If the homeowner had known what time the thief was coming, he would have stayed alert and not let his house be broken into.

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and if it falls on anyone, it will grind him to powder!”

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.

After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and when he broke it, he began to eat.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

True enough; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.