14 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

Psalms 46:9

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Psalms 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Psalms 107:16

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Isaiah 27:9

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Nahum 1:13

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

Luke 12:46

The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 35:18

For the Lord will not be slack, neither will the Mighty be patient toward them, till he have smitten in sunder the loins of the unmerciful, and repayed vengeance to the heathen; till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptre of the unrighteous;

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 36:10

Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that say, There is none other but we.

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 47:7

For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and brought to nought the Philistines his adversaries, and brake their horn in sunder unto this day.

Bel and the Dragon 1:27

Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragons mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.

NT Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha

Infancy Gospel of Thomas 10:1

After a few days, a certain young man was cleaving wood in the neighbourhood ( MSS. corner), and the axe fell and cut in sunder the sole of his foot, and losing much blood he was at the point to die.

Gospel of Nicodemus, Part II: The Descent into Hell 5:2

But when all the multitude of the saints heard it, they spake with a voice of rebuking unto Hell: Open thy gates, that the King of glory may come in. And David cried out, saying: Did I not when I was alive upon earth, foretell unto you: Let them give thanks unto the Lord, even his mercies and his wonders unto the children of men; who hath broken the gates of brass and smitten the bars of iron in sunder? he hath taken them out of the way of their iniquity. And thereafter in like manner Esaias said: Did not I when I was alive upon earth foretell unto you: The dead shall arise, and they that are in the tombs shall rise again, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice, for the dew which cometh of the Lord is their healing? And again I said: O death, where is thy sting? O Hell, where is thy victory?

OT Pseudepigrapha

Testament of Judah 1:13

I outran the wild boar, and seizing it as I ran, I tore it in sunder.