cha.shal describes iron’s action of breaking things into pieces in Daniel’s fourth-kingdom comparison.

The lone attestation presents cha.shal as the destructive breaking action associated with iron, within the comparison of a fourth kingdom to iron.

1. Breaking into pieces · dominant

   In Daniel 2:40, the active participle occurs in the clause comparing the fourth kingdom to iron; the APB renders the surrounding comparison with iron that “breaks in pieces” and a kingdom that will “crush and break all these.”

   Daniel 2:40

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Daniel 2:40, the APB presents the surrounding iron comparison with “breaks in pieces” and “crush and break.” It does not isolate a single English equivalent for the form.