'Pulling' in the Bible

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.

For to the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies belongs the day of tumult, trampling, and confusion in the Valley of Vision, and the pulling down of his Temple on its mountain.

And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.