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breaking

Meaning of “breaking”

The act or process of parting, opening, bursting, demolishing, violating, dividing, or beginning to break forth.

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First occurrence: Genesis 32:24

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Genesis 32:24
¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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1611 witness · Genesis 32:24 · retained source text

¶ And Iacob was left alone: and there wrestled a man with him, vntill the breaking of the day.

1611 marginal noteHebr. Ascending of the morning.

Exodus 9:9
And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
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1611 witness · Exodus 9:9 · retained source text

And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall bee a boyle breaking forth with blaines, vpon man and vpon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9:10
And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
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1611 witness · Exodus 9:10 · retained source text

And they tooke ashes of the fornace, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkled it vp toward heauen: and it became a boile breaking forth with blaines, vpon man and vpon beast.

Exodus 22:2
¶ If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
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¶ If a thiefe bee found breaking vp, and be smitten that he die, there shal no blood be shed for him.

1 Chronicles 14:11
So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
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So they came vp to Baal-Perazim, and Dauid smote them there. Then Dauid said, God hath broken in vpon mine enemies by mine hand, like the breaking foorth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place, Baal-Perazim.

1611 marginal noteHeb. that is a place of breaches.

Job 30:14
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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1611 witness · Job 30:14 · retained source text

They came vpon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselues vpon me.

Psalms 144:14
That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
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That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streetes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. able to beare burdens, or loaden with flesh.

Isaiah 22:5
For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
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For it is a day of trouble, and of treading downe, and of perplexitie by the LORD God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the walles, and of crying to the mountaines.

Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 30:13 · retained source text

Therefore this iniquitie shalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly at an instant.

Isaiah 30:14
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 30:14 · retained source text

And he shall breake it as the breaking of the potters vessell, that is broken in pieces, he shall not spare; so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it, a sheard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withall out of the pit.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the bottell of potters.

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