TO TEAR UP, to pluck out — a violent uprooting. ⭐ Read across the archived text, the verb stands in four verses of the Hebrew Bible (the consonants also begin an unrelated swept away at Jeremiah 46:15): Deuteronomy 28:63, you will be torn up from off the ground that you are entering to possess, and three in the wisdom books where it is what God does to the wicked — he will tear you up from your tent (Psalm 52:7), the treacherous will be torn up from the land (Proverbs 2:22), Jehovah tears up the house of the proud (15:25; none yet on these pages). The KJV and ASV read ‘plucked from off the land’, the Geneva ‘rooted out’, the NIV ‘uprooted’, the NWT 1984 ‘torn away’; the RV 1909 and RV60 «arrancados». → first discussed at Deut 28:63