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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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18 occurrences18 verses11 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 32:24

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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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1611 witness · Isaiah 22:5 · retained source text

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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