I. [נָפַץ] verb shatter (Late Hebrew id., dash, beat; Assyrian napâƒu, shatter, destroy DlHWB 475; ᵑ7 נְפַע Pa`el shatter, but also נְפַץ Pa`el, id., Syriac shake, break, so Mandean, NöM. 240, and ZMG xxxii (1878), 406); —
Qal Infinitive absolute וְנָפוֺץ with accusative
Judg 7:19 and a shattering (=
and shattered) the jars;
Passive participle עֶצֶב נִבְזֶה נָפוּץ Jer 22:28 (figurative)
a vessel to be despised (
and)
shattered (compare Ew Gie Rothst
Kau); also
Participle active נֹפֵץ shatterer of the holy people
Dan 12:7 (Bev Marti
Kau, reading
כִּכְלוֺת יַד נֹפֵץ).
Pi`el dash to pieces: Perfect 3 masculine singular
וְנִפֵּץ consecutive
Ps 137:9 with accusative infants ag. (
אֶל) rock; 1 singular
וְנִפַּצְתִּ֫י of
׳י dashing all in pieces with (
ב) Babylon as war-club
Jer 51:20;
Jer 51:21 (twice in verse);
Jer 51:22 (3 t. in verse);
Jer 51:23 (3 t. in verse); suffix
וְנִפַּצְתִּים אִישׁ אֶלאָֿחִיו Jer 13:14 Imperfect 2 masculine singular suffix
כִּכְלִי יוֺצֵר תְּנַפְּצֵם Ps 2:9 (i.e. nations); 3 masculine plural
נִבְלֵיהֶם יְנַפֵּ֑צוּ Jer 48:12 (symbolic of destroying Moab);
Infinitive נַפֵּץ יַדעַֿםקֹֿדֶשׁ Dan 12:7 when (
they)
finish shattering the hand (figurative for
power)
of the holy people, but read possibly
נֹפֵץ, see
Qal;
II. נָפַץ verb disperse, be scattered (often taken as secondary √ from Niph`al of פוץ, yet compare Late Hebrew נפץ, Qal (Participle), Pi`el, scatter; Syriac pour out, throw down, ᵑ7 נְפַץ; Arabic shake (irregular correspondence of sibilants compare Nöl.c.), Ethiopic dissipari, aufugere Di 713); —
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular
הָעָם מֵעָלַי ׳נ 1Sam 13:11 the people were scattered from me; 3 feminine singular
נָָֽפְצָה כָלהָֿאָרֶץ Gen 9:19 (J) thence
dispersed all (the population of)
the earth; 3 plural
נָָֽמְצוּ גּוֺיִם Isa 33:3 nations were scattered; Passive participle feminine plural construct
נְפֻצוֺת יְהוּדָה Isa 11:12 the dispersed of Judah he shall collect (||
נִדְחֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל).