brake down. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia (App-6), by which the words are heaped together to impress us with the thoroughness of the work: e.g. "brake down", "cut down", "brake in pieces", "made dust of them", "strowed it", and "burnt".
graves. Hebrew. keber. a burial place, from kabar, to bury (Genesis 23:4; Genesis 23:20, &c). Primary idea is heaping up. tumulus. Keber. a grave; Sheol. the grave. See App-35.