'Breaks' in the Bible

They said, “We see clearly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘There should now be an oath between us [with a curse for the one who breaks it], that is, between you and us, and let us make a covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you,

Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

"When a fire breaks out and spreads into thorn bushes and consumes stacked grain or standing grain or the field, the one who started the fire certainly is to make restitution.

But if the skin disease breaks out all over the skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from his head to his feet so far as the priest can see,

“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,

Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you -- in one of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you -- who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

For a fire breaks out in my anger burning to the deepest part of the afterlife, consuming the earth and its produce and igniting the foundations of the mountains.

Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he broke the cords as a string of tow breaks when it touches fire. So [the secret of] his strength was not discovered.

You shall surround the [young] king, each man with weapons in his hand; and whoever comes through the ranks shall be put to death. You are to be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”

My skin is covered with worms and clods of dirt; my skin becomes rough and then breaks out afresh.

For his confidence is fragile and breaks,And his trust is [like] a spider’s web.

“For He bruises me with a tempestAnd multiplies my wounds without cause.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

He breaks through my defenses again and again;He charges at me like a warrior.

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell}; [those] who are forgotten {by travelers}, they dangle, they sway [far away] from human beings.

“He breaks in pieces mighty men without inquiry,And sets others in their place.

when dust dries into a mass and then breaks apart into clods?

The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;He burns the chariots with fire.

Each of my friends raises his hand against his allies; each of my friends breaks his word.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil,turning up rocks,so our bones have been scatteredat the mouth of Sheol.

The tongue that heals is a tree of life,but a devious tongue breaks the spirit.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

To start a conflict is to release a flood;stop the dispute before it breaks out.

By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,And a soft tongue breaks the bone.

The one who digs a pit may fall into it,and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks} suddenly, [in] an instant.

And he breaks it like a vessel of {a potter} breaks, [that] is crushed; he has no compassion, and no potsherd is found among its fragments {to take fire} from [the] hearth, or {to skim} water from [the] cistern."

Highways are deserted; [the] traveler [on the] road ceases. One breaks a treaty, he rejects [the] cities, he does not hold man in high regard.

I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones day and night you make an end of me.

They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;He who eats of their eggs dies,And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

One slaughters an ox, one kills a man;one sacrifices a lamb, one breaks a dog’s neck;one offers a grain offering, one offers pig’s blood;one offers incense, one praises an idol—all these have chosen their waysand delight in their detestable practices.

and say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.

My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!

The tongue of the infant cleavesTo the roof of its mouth because of thirst;The little ones ask for bread,But no one breaks it for them.

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces.

when I heal Israel,the sins of Ephraim and the crimes of Samariawill be exposed.For they practice fraud;a thief breaks in;a raiding party pillages outside.

You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.

One who breaks open the waywill advance before them;they will break out, pass through the gate,and leave by it.Their King will pass through before them,the Lord as their leader.

Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.

Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law.