Breach
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [1]
Job 16:14 (a) Here we learn that GOD had broken down all the defense that Job had set up. That in which Job rejoiced, his many friends, his family, his farm, and his business were all taken from him, and in his poverty and loneliness he was exposed to his enemies.
Psalm 106:23 (a) Israel by their sins had opened the way for GOD to come in and punish them; then Moses prayed and prevailed for them. (See Isaiah 30:13, Isaiah 30:26; Lamentations 2:13; Jeremiah 14:17).
Proverbs 15:4 (b) An evil tongue opens the way for the human spirit to get in trouble. It disturbs and distracts the heart.
Isaiah 58:12 (b) Those who prevail with GOD in prayer and walk with Him in fellowship will mend a rift in the church and will bring GOD's divided people together.
Amos 4:3 (b) The Lord is telling Israel here that He will break open the defenses of Samaria, and the idolatrous inhabitants would be made to flee for their lives.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; - said of a whale.
(2): (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
(3): (n.) A hernia; a rupture.
(4): (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
(5): (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
(6): (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
(7): (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
(8): (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
(9): (n.) A bruise; a wound.
(10): (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
King James Dictionary [3]
Breach n.
1. The act of breaking or state of being broken a rupture a break a gap the space between the severed parts of a solid body parted by violence as a breach in a garment, or in a wall. 2. The violation of a law the violation or non-fulfillment of a contract the non-performance of a moral duty non-performance of duty being a breach of obligation, as well as a positive transgression or violation.
Every breach of the public engagements is hurtful to public credit.
3. An opening in a coast. Not usual. 4. Separation between friends by means of enmity difference quarrel. 5. Infraction injury invasion as a breach upon kingly power. 6. Bereavement loss of a friend and its consequent affliction. 7. A violation of the public peace, as by a riot, affray, or any tumult which is contrary to law, and destructive to the public tranquillity, is called a breach of the peace.
BREACH, To make a breach, or opening.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
BREACH . ‘Breach’ is a literal trans, of the Heb. in 2 Samuel 6:8 and 1 Chronicles 13:11 ‘the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah,’ and in Job 16:14 ‘He breaketh me with breach upon breach.’ The word in both places is used figuratively of an outburst of wrath.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [5]
1 Kings 11:27 2 Kings 12:5 Leviticus 24:20 Psalm 60:2 Judges 5:17
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [6]
brēch : Represented by (1) פרץ , perec = "a tear," "a rending asunder," "a break," hence, figuratively "enmity," "disruption," "strife" ( Genesis 38:29; Judges 21:15; 2 Samuel 5:20; 1 Chronicles 15:13; Nehemiah 6:1; Job 16:14; Psalm 106:23; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 58:12 ); (2) שׁבר , shebher = "fracture," "affliction," "bruise," "destruction" ( Leviticus 24:20; Jeremiah 14:17; Lamentations 2:13; Psalm 60:2 ); (3) בּדק , bedheḳ = "a gap" or "leak" (in a building or ship) occurring in 2 Kings 12:5-8 , 2 Kings 12:12; 2 Kings 22:5; (4) תּנוּאה , tenū'āh = "alienation," "breach of promise" ( Numbers 14:34 the King James Version); (5) מפרץ , miphrāc = "a break" (in the shore), and hence, "a haven" ( Judges 5:17 , the Revised Version (British and American) "creeks").
