94 occurrences

'Broken' in the Bible

And [as for any] uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsBreaking The Covenant

And a clay vessel in which it was boiled must be broken, but if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be thoroughly scoured and rinsed with water.

Verse ConceptsClayClay, UsesBreaking ContainersClean ObjectsPots For Cooking And Eating

And anything on which {one of their dead bodies} falls shall become unclean: an oven or a stove must be broken--they [are] unclean and shall be unclean for you.

Verse ConceptsBakingOvensBreaking Containersporkcookingpot

And the priest shall examine [it], and {if} its appearance [is] deeper than the skin and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall declare him unclean--it is an infectious skin disease; it has broken out in the skin sore.

Verse ConceptsThe Hair Of The BodyWhite Hair

then the priest shall examine it, and {if} the hair turns white in the spot and its appearance [is] deeper than the skin, it [is] an infectious skin disease--it has broken out in the burn-spot; so the priest shall declare him unclean--it [is] an infectious skin disease.

Verse ConceptsThe Hair Of The BodyWhite Hair

then the priest shall examine [them], and {if} [the] spots on their body's skin [are] faded white, it [is] a skin rash; it has broken out on the skin--it [is] clean.

Verse ConceptsWhite Spots

But a clay vessel that the person who discharges touches must be broken, and any {wood object} must be rinsed with water.

Verse ConceptsClayBreaking Containers

And all of the elders of that city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer [with] the broken neck in the wadi.

Verse ConceptsDislocating

Now, look! You {rely} on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [when] a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So [is] Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him!

Verse ConceptsReedsStaffTrusting Other People

And David {was angry} because Yahweh had broken out in wrath against Uzza. And that place is called Perez Uzza unto this day.

For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had used all the holy vessels of the house of Yahweh for the Baals.

Verse ConceptsTemples, HeathenSacrilege

Then he strengthened himself and built up all the walls that were broken down, and raised towers upon [them] and another wall {outside}. And he strengthened the Millo of the city of David and made much weaponry and small shields.

Verse ConceptsArmourShieldsTowersWeaponsArmor ProtectionBuilding Jerusalem's Wallrebuildingreinforcement

Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, "We ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodOptimismParticipation, In SinUnfaithfulness, To God

They replied to me, "The survivors in the province who have survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned in the fire."

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityGatesBattering ramsWallsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallCity GatesBurning JerusalemSurvivors Of Israel

[The] roar of [the] lion and [the] voice of a lion in its prime, and [the] teeth of [the] young lions are broken.

Verse ConceptsTeethBreaking Teeth

He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfRootsDestruction Of PlantsWithout Hope

[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessWombMaggotsForgetting PeopleHarming TreesPurgatoryworms

[then] let my shoulder blade fall from [my] shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

Verse ConceptsAnatomyShoulders

And their light is withheld from [the] wicked, and [their] uplifted arm is broken.

Verse ConceptsArmsDarkness Of Eviluplifting

Their sword will enter into their [own] heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Verse ConceptsBreaking WeaponsA Broken HeartBroken Hearts

For [the] arms of [the] wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh supports [the] righteous.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenSustaining ProvidenceGod SupportingSupport

O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us. You have been angry. Restore us!

Verse ConceptsCarvings Of FlowersMusicDivine DispleasureDispleasure

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all [who] pass on [the] road pluck [fruit from] it?

Verse ConceptsWallsDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallWhy Does God Do This?

He has broken my strength along the way; he has cut short my days.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfLife Cut Short

Our soul has escaped like a bird from [the] snare of fowlers. The snare [is] broken, and we have escaped.

Verse ConceptsHuntingBirds, Figurative UseWorldly SnaresEscaping The TrapBirdsBreaking Chains

and behold, it was overgrown--all of it was covered [with] thorns, its surface with nettles, and {its stone wall} was broken down.

Verse ConceptsNettlesArchaeologySlothfulnessWeedGrowing

{Although an assailant may overpower one person, two may withstand him}. A threefold cord {is not easily broken}!

Verse ConceptsCordsAn Overpowering PresencePlaitingTwo PeopleThreefoldknots

Before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is broken; and the jar at the foundation is broken, and the wheel at the cistern is broken.

Verse ConceptsBreaking ContainersWater ContainersCordsWheelsThings Like GoldThings Like SilverNervousnessBreaking Chainslungs

Be broken, [you] peoples, and be dismayed. And listen, all distant [parts of the] earth; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed!

Verse ConceptsBattlesVoicesBattle Cries

And many shall stumble among them, and they shall fall and they shall be broken, and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught."

Verse ConceptsPeople Stumbling

Yahweh has broken [the] staff of [the] wicked, [the] scepter of rulers,

Verse ConceptsSceptreBreaking Sticksrelentless

You must not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for a viper will come forth from [the] root of [the] snake, and its fruit [will be] a flying serpent.

Verse ConceptsPoisonRootsSerpentsSnakesBreaking SticksLack Of RejoicingThose Flying

For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah; rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils, they reached up to Jazer, they wandered [to the] desert; her shoots spread abroad, they crossed over [the] sea.

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken [the] everlasting covenant.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahGod, The EternalEcological ConcernsPolluting The LandBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's LawDefilement

[The] city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut {so that no one can enter};

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesFormlessnessShutting Doors

The earth is utterly broken; [the] earth is torn asunder; [the] earth is shaken violently.

Verse ConceptsThe Earth

{When its branches are dry}, they are broken; women [are] coming [and] setting light to it. For it [is] not a people of understanding; therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor.

Verse ConceptsSympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

And to them the word of Yahweh will be blah-blah upon blah-blah blah-blah upon blah-blah gah-gah upon gah-gah gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there, so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken and ensnared and captured.

Verse ConceptsGraduallyReprobatesGod's OrdersExposition Of The ScripturesFalling Backwards

Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [if] a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such [is] Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceReedsStaffTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstTrusting Other People

He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And [the] coastlands wait for his teaching.

Verse ConceptsHope, As ConfidenceHope, In GodIslandsSpirit Of ChristGod Doing RightDoing RightNot Discouragedcredibility

Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for [the] heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces.

Verse ConceptsFailture, God Will Nevereternity, nature ofAstronomyInsectsEarth, Destruction OfSmokeEcological ConcernsImputed RighteousnessSalvation, Described AsEternal DeliveranceThe Universe DestroyedDisappearanceThings Wearing OutLooking At God's WorksAbrasionSmoke Used Poetically

"For from long ago you have broken your yoke, you tore to pieces your bonds. And you said, 'I will not serve!' But on every high hill and under every leafy tree you [were] lying down [as] a prostitute.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryServanthood, And Worship Of GodShrinesYokesNot Serving GodSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At TreesBreaking Chains

Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the law of their God." However, they together have broken [the] yoke, they have torn to pieces [the] bonds.

Verse ConceptsYokesEscaping From GodBreaking Chains

"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraeldiscouragementSorrowI Mourn CatastropheHealing A Broken HeartHurtA Broken Hearthurting

They have turned back to the iniquities of their former ancestors, who refused to obey my words, and they have gone after other gods, to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I {made} with their ancestors."

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodRefusing To HearDifferent GodsReturning to the oldBreaking The Covenant

"And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt [with] tears night and day, and let them not cease, for [with] a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, [with] a very incurable wound.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken in my midst. All my bones tremble. I have become like a drunken man, even like a man over whom wine has passed, because of Yahweh, and because of {his holy words}.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessAlcoholdefeatWineIndividuals TremblingBroken Heartsheartbroken

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, {saying}, 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

"Go, and you must say to Hananiah, {saying}, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have broken yoke bars of wood, but you have made in place of them yoke bars of iron."

Verse ConceptsIron, Figurative Use OfWoodIron ObjectsBronze GatesBreaking Chains

then my covenant could be broken with David my servant, from {having} a son who could rule on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesLater Covenants With GodSaul And DavidThe Dynasty Of David

Moab is broken, her little ones {make heard} a cry for help.

Verse ConceptsPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

Mourn for him, all his surroundings, and all those who knew his name. Say, 'How [the] staff of might is broken, [the] staff of glory.'

Verse ConceptsSceptreSorrowDeposing

The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken," {declares} Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsArmsHornsBones BrokenHorns WeakenedHorns Broken

On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, [there is] wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," {declares} Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsRoofBreaking ContainersRooftop

How the blacksmith's hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations!

Verse ConceptsBabylonToolsHammers

The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken.

Verse ConceptsGatesPowerlessnessEffeminacyCessationStopping FightingWeak WomenBurning CitiesNo Strength LeftWomen's Strength

For a destroyer [is] coming against her, against Babylon, and her warriors are captured. Their bows are broken; for Yahweh [is] a God of recompense, certainly he will repay.

Verse ConceptsBreaking WeaponsThose Who DestroyBabylon DestroyedGod Executes VengeanceGod Will Requite

The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy to all the dwellings of Jacob; he has broken down in his wrath the fortifications of the daughter of Judah; he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored the kingdom and its commanders.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toFortificationsFortressesAnger Of God, ConsequencesJacob, The PatriarchDestruction Of StrongholdsSwallowingPeople Being PollutedNot Sparing

He has broken down {his dwelling} place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made [them] forget in Zion {festival} and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalDecayDestruction Of The TempleGod Living In The TabernacleBoothsForgetting ThingsDeposed PriestsFestivals DisregardedSabbath Violated

Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes [are] among the nations; there is no more law. Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Poverty, SpiritualVisionsSpiritual DestitutionBreaking SticksDestruction Of JerusalemKings ExiledCity GatesNo VisionsProphecy AbolishedPutting Things Down

He has worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones.

Verse ConceptsSkinBones BrokenHuman SkinDamage To The Body

He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash.

Verse ConceptsDentistryAshes Of HumiliationSand And Gravellungs

and your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken, and I will throw down your slain ones {before} your idols,

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's WorksFate Of IdolatersIn Frontpoop

In all of your dwellings, the cities will be desolate and the high places will be ruined, so that your altars will be desolate and will suffer punishment. Your idols will be broken and will come to an end, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works will be destroyed,

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Evil ThingsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of Satan's WorksUseless LabourOne's DeedsAbandoning Idols

"Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, 'Ah! The gates of the peoples are broken; it has swung [open] to me; I shall be filled, [for] it lies in ruins!'

From the abundance of his horses he will cover you [with] their fine dust; at [the] sound of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will shake, at his coming into your gates like the entrance of a city [that is] being broken through.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCartsWheelsThings ShakingNumerous As DustAutomobiles

Now you are broken by seas in [the] depths of waters; your wares and all of your crew in the midst of you have sunk.

Verse ConceptsShipwrecksThings Falling

And they will know that I [am] Yahweh when I put my fire in Egypt, and all of its helpers are broken.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceFire Of JudgementGroups Helping

"Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, I have broken. And look, it has not been bound up for giving of a remedy, or for [the] placing of a splint to bind it [up] to make it strong to take hold of the sword."

Verse ConceptsdoctorsHealingBones BrokenNo HealingHealing A Broken Heart

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I [am] against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his strong arm and the broken [arm], and I will let the sword fall from his hand.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGod OpposingThings Falling

And strangers cut it off, [the most] ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all [of the] valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFelling TreesAbandoning ThingsSuffering From ForeignersThings Falling

And you [too] in the midst of uncircumcised [people] will be broken, and you will lie with [those] slain by [the] sword.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDying With The UncircumcisedState Of The Dead

The king answered and said to the {astrologers}, "The command from me is firm: if you [do] not make known to me the dream and its explanation, [then] you will be broken into pieces and your houses will be laid in ruins.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPeople Torn To PiecesRubbishHouses Under Attack

And from me {is set forth} a decree that any people, nation, or language that [may] utter criticism against their God--[the God of] Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego--will be broken into pieces and their house will be made like ruins. {For} there is not another God who is able to rescue like this [God]."

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsCoercionPeople Torn To PiecesRubbishBlasphemy

And the he-goat grew {exceedingly great}, and {at the height of its power} the great horn was broken, and four conspicuous horns came up in place of it toward the four winds of heaven.

Verse ConceptsHeightCompassesFour HornsFour WindsHorns In AllegoryHorns Broken

And the [horn] [that] was broken, and [then] there arose four [horns] in place of it--[these are] four kingdoms [that] will arise from [his] nation, but not with his power.

Verse ConceptsFour GroupsFour HornsHorns In AllegoryHorns BrokenThe Kingdom Of Others

And by his planning he will make a success of deceit by his hand, and in his {mind} he will {boast}, and in [their] ease he will destroy many, and [even] against [the] prince of princes he will rise up, and he will be broken, [but] not by human hands.

Verse ConceptsBabylonAntichristPower, God's SavingSatan, As DeceiverInfidelity To GodDestruction Of The WickedThose At EaseThose Who DeceivedProud PeopleMan's Relation To God

"Then in his place will arise [one] sending an official [throughout] [the] glory of [his] kingdom, and {in a few days} he will be broken, but not in anger and not in battle.

Verse ConceptsTaxationA Short TimeNo WarShort Time For Actiontaxes

And {before him} {mighty military forces} will be utterly swept away, and they will be broken, and also [the] leader of [the] covenant.

Verse ConceptsCovenant Made At Sinai

[Put] to your lips [the] trumpet like a vulture over the house of Yahweh, because they have {broken my covenant} and rebelled against my law.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodTrumpetWingsBirds, Types Of BirdsEaglesTrumpets For SignallingBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

Because [it is] from Israel, an artisan made it, it [is] not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken [to] pieces.

Verse ConceptsBroken Things

Then all her idols will be broken in pieces, and all her prostitution wages will be burned in the fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation, For from the wage of a prostitute she gathered [them], and to the wage of a prostitute they will return.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionHarlotsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWages Of A ProstituteAbandoning Idols

And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted of the flock, the [ones who were] watching me, knew that it [was] the word of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

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Bankrupt (2 instances)
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Dampen (1 instance)
Demote (2 instances)
Disclose (36 instances)
Discontinue (1 instance)
Discover (49 instances)
Erupt (4 instances)
Expose (42 instances)
Founder (7 instances)
Offend (33 instances)
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Uncover (39 instances)
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