Words the Bible translates as throw down
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- naphalנָפַלto fall: to go down from standing or from above, a picture Hebrew stretches to cover being killed, bowing to the ground, being overthrown, deserting to an enemy, and a share falling to someone by lot
- kataluōκαταλύωto take something apart so it no longer stands: to tear down, demolish, or do away with, whether a building, a law, or a plan
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- to stop for the night as a guest: to find lodging and rest at the end of a journey
- kataballōκαταβάλλωto lay/throw downnot studied yet
- rhēgnumiῥήγνυμιto burst or rip apart: to make something come to pieces under sheer force
+2 more meanings
- to break forth: to let a cry burst out of someone who has been silent
- to hurl a person violently to the ground
- natatsנָתַץto tear down: to demolish something built, reducing a structure to rubble
- shamatשָׁמַטto let drop: to let something fall out of your hold, whether an object, a field left unworked, or a debt you stop collecting
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