Strong's #2040: harac (pronounced haw-ras')

a primitive root; to pull down or in pieces, break, &? destroy:--beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, X utterly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

hâras

1) to tear down, break down, overthrow, beat down, break, break through, destroy, pluck down, pull down, throw down, ruined, destroyer, utterly

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to throw down, tear down

1a2) to break through

1a3) to break down, break away

1b) (Niphal) to be torn down, be thrown down

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to overthrow, tear down

1c2) destroyer (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 43 times:

 

Exodus 15:7: "And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble."
Exodus 19:21: "charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many"
Exodus 19:24: "thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest"
Exodus 23:24: "do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images."
Exodus 23:24: "do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images."
Judges 6:25: "even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal"
2 Samuel 11:25: "make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage"
1 Kings 18:30: "the altar of the LORD that was broken down."
1 Kings 19:10: "the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain"
1 Kings 19:14: "the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain"
2 Kings 3:25: " And they beat down the cities, good piece of land cast every man his stone,"
1 Chronicles 20:1: "smote Rabbah, and destroyed"
Job 12:14: "Behold, he breaketh down, be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening."
Psalms 11:3: "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
Psalms 28:5: "the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up."
Psalms 58:6: " Break their teeth, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD."
Proverbs 11:11: "of the upright is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked."
Proverbs 14:1: "her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
Proverbs 24:31: "the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down."
Proverbs 29:4: "the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth"
Isaiah 14:17: "That made the world and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house"
Isaiah 22:19: "And I will drive thee from thy station, shall he pull thee down."
Isaiah 49:17: "Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of"
Jeremiah 1:10: "to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."
Jeremiah 24:6: "land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up."
Jeremiah 31:28: "over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch"
Jeremiah 31:40: "it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever."
Jeremiah 42:10: "land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up:"
Jeremiah 45:4: "that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up,"
Jeremiah 50:15: "her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD:"
Lamentations 2:2: "of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;"
Lamentations 2:17: "he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy"
Ezekiel 13:14: " So will I break down that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to"
Ezekiel 16:39: "And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes,"
Ezekiel 26:4: "And they shall destroy the walls and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from"
Ezekiel 26:12: "of thy riches, of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses:"
Ezekiel 30:4: "and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down."
Ezekiel 36:35: "of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited."
Ezekiel 36:36: "I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD"
Ezekiel 38:20: "shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every"
Joel 1:17: "the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered."
Micah 5:11: "And I will cut off the cities and throw down all thy strongholds:"
Malachi 1:4: "They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people"