'Breaks' in the Bible

“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.

If the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him who has the infection from his head even to his feet, as 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,

“He breaks through me with breach after breach;He runs 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.

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

The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces 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.

As when one plows and breaks open the earth,Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water,So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.

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

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

“I composed my soul until morning.Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones,From day until 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.

“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.As they have chosen their own ways,And their soul delights in their abominations,

and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.

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.

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.