Brake
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v.) imp. of Break.

2. (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

3. (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

4. (n.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

5. (n.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.

6. (n.) A baker's kneading though.

7. (n.) A sharp bit or snaffle.

8. (n.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

9. (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

10. (n.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

11. (n.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

12. (n.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

13. (n.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.

14. (n.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

15. (n.) An ancient instrument of torture.

16. (p. p.) of Break

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John Chapter xix. 31-42, and xx. 1-9.
... 2. "Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the
other who was crucified with Him. But when they came to ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate cxx john chapter xix.htm

The Blood of Sprinkling
... Of that covenant the Lord says, "which my covenant they brake, although I was an
husband unto them." He never brake his covenant, but they brake it; for they ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 32 1886/the blood of sprinkling.htm

Blessed be that First Day of Thine, Lord, Wherewith this Day of ...
... is no stint. The bread which the First-born brake in the wilderness,
[419] failed and passed away though very good. He returned ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn iii blessed be that.htm

Matt. xiv. 13
... loaves, and the two fishes, and commanded the multitude," it is said, "to sit down
upon the grass, and looking up to Heaven, He blessed, and brake, and gave to ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xlix matt xiv 13.htm

"Thou Art the Christ"
... And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves,
and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them ...
/.../mark/jesus of nazareth a biography/chapter viii thou art the.htm

Despised and Rejected by Friend and Foe
... in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an
alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she brake the box ...
/.../mark/jesus of nazareth a biography/chapter xiv despised and rejected.htm

The Crucifixion.
... The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which
was crucified with Him: but when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was ...
/.../dods/the expositors bible the gospel of st john vol ii/xxi the crucifixion.htm

And Jesus Departed Thence, and came to the Side of the Sea of ...
... And he [9] commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground; [1616] and he took
those seven loaves and the fish, and blessed, and brake, and gave to his ...
/.../hogg/the diatessaron of tatian/section xxiii and jesus departed.htm

And after That, Jesus Knew that all Things were Finished...
... [3638] And the soldiers came, and brake the legs of the [16] first, and that other
which was crucified with him: [3639] but when they came to Jesus, [17] they ...
/.../hogg/the diatessaron of tatian/section lii and after that.htm

The Young Knight: a Parable
... The knight he shrieked, he ran, he flew, He searched the wild wood through and through,
But found nought save a mantle blue, Low rolled within the brake O! ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the young knight a parable.htm

Thesaurus
Brake (80 Occurrences)
... (n.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing
the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. ...
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Groves (32 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the
groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto ...
/g/groves.htm - 16k

Hewed (22 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS). 2 Chronicles 14:3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places,
and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, (ASV JPS RSV). ...
/h/hewed.htm - 14k

Fishes (32 Occurrences)
... he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and
the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave ...
/f/fishes.htm - 16k

Liers-in-wait (10 Occurrences)
... And he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire.
So his strength was not known. ... And he brake them off his arms like a thread. ...
/l/liers-in-wait.htm - 10k

Giving (611 Occurrences)
... Matthew 26:26 And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having
blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat ...
/g/giving.htm - 34k

Beth-lehem (49 Occurrences)
... was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and the day brake
upon them at Hebron. (ASV BBE JPS WBS YLT). 2 Samuel 23 ...
/b/beth-lehem.htm - 21k

Thebez (3 Occurrences)
... tower to which its inhabitants had fled for safety, and was about to set fire to
it, a woman cast a fragment of millstone at him, and "all to brake his skull ...
/t/thebez.htm - 9k

Draught-house (1 Occurrence)
... 2 Kings 10:27 And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of
Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day. (ASV DBY JPS WBS YLT). ...
/d/draught-house.htm - 7k

Dreadful (23 Occurrences)
... saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and
strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces ...
/d/dreadful.htm - 13k

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Brake (80 Occurrences)

Matthew 14:19
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
(KJV ASV)

Matthew 15:36
And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
(KJV ASV)

Matthew 26:26
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Mark 6:41
And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Mark 8:6
And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Mark 8:19
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Mark 14:22
And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Luke 5:6
And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
(KJV)

Luke 6:49
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great.
(ASV YLT)

Luke 8:29
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
(KJV)

Luke 9:16
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Luke 22:19
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Luke 24:30
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
(KJV)

John 5:18
For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
(ASV)

John 19:32
Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
(KJV ASV)

John 19:33
But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
(KJV ASV)

Acts 27:35
And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all; and he brake it, and began to eat.
(ASV)

1 Corinthians 11:24
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Ephesians 2:14
For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,
(ASV)

Exodus 9:25
And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
(KJV ASV)

Exodus 32:3
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
(KJV ASV)

Exodus 32:19
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
(KJV ASV)

Deuteronomy 9:17
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
(KJV ASV)

Judges 7:19
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
(KJV ASV)

Judges 7:20
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
(KJV ASV)

Judges 8:17
And he brake down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
(ASV)

Judges 9:53
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
(KJV ASV)

Judges 16:9
Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
(KJV ASV)

Judges 16:12
Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
(KJV ASV)

Judges 20:33
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel brake forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba.
(ASV)

1 Samuel 4:18
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
(KJV ASV)

1 Samuel 5:9
And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors brake out upon them.
(ASV)

2 Samuel 2:32
And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and the day brake upon them at Hebron.
(ASV)

2 Samuel 23:16
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
(KJV ASV)

1 Kings 19:11
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 10:27
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 11:18
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 14:13
And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 23:7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 23:8
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 23:12
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
(KJV)

2 Kings 23:14
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
(KJV ASV)

2 Kings 25:10
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
(KJV ASV)

1 Chronicles 11:18
And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.
(KJV ASV)

2 Chronicles 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
(KJV ASV)

2 Chronicles 21:17
And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
(KJV ASV)

2 Chronicles 23:17
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
(KJV ASV)

2 Chronicles 25:23
And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
(KJV ASV)

2 Chronicles 26:19
Then Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy brake forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense.
(ASV)

2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
(KJV ASV)

2 Chronicles 34:4
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
(KJV ASV)

2 Chronicles 34:7
And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
(ASV)

2 Chronicles 36:19
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
(KJV ASV)

Job 16:12
I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
(ASV)

Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
(KJV ASV)

Job 38:8
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
(KJV ASV)

Job 38:10
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
(KJV)

Psalms 76:3
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
(KJV ASV)

Psalms 105:16
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
(KJV ASV)

Psalms 105:33
He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
(KJV ASV)

Psalms 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
(KJV ASV)

Psalms 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
(KJV ASV)

Isaiah 22:10
and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;
(ASV)

Jeremiah 28:10
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
(KJV ASV)

Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
(KJV ASV)

Jeremiah 37:5
And Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that were besieging Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they brake up from Jerusalem.
(ASV)

Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
(KJV ASV)

Jeremiah 52:14
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
(KJV ASV)

Jeremiah 52:17
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
(KJV)

Ezekiel 17:16
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
(KJV ASV)

Daniel 2:1
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
(KJV)

Daniel 2:34
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
(KJV ASV)

Daniel 2:45
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
(KJV ASV)

Daniel 6:24
And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
(KJV ASV)

Daniel 7:2
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea.
(ASV)

Daniel 7:7
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
(KJV ASV)

Daniel 7:19
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
(KJV JPS ASV)

Daniel 8:7
And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
(KJV ASV)

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