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H3807 כָּתַת (kâthath) kaw-thath'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to bruise or violently strike

KJV Usage: beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

כָּתַת (ka.tat) — to crush. 1) to beat, crush by beating, crush to pieces, crush fine 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to beat or crush fine 1a2) to beat, hammer 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to beat or crush fine 1b2) to beat, hammer 1c) (Pual) to be beaten 1d) (Hiphil) to beat in pieces, shatter 1e) (Hophal) to be beaten, be crushed

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · כָּתִית · מְכִתָּה

Impact | verb qal, verb pi, verb hof

to smash, to crush = causative action by which humans use excessive power to break an object into little pieces

LEV 22:24 · DEU 9:21 · 2KI 18:4 · 2CH 34:7 · ISA 24:12 · ISA 30:14 · MIC 1:7

Dead | ≈ אבד

to be crushed literally: to be crushed; = process by which humans die a violent death

JOB 4:20

Control | verb qal, verb pi, verb hif, verb pu'al, verb hof | ≈ נגף

to defeat totally = causative action by which an army gains the upper hand over an opposing army with a total victory

NUM 14:45 · DEU 1:44 · 2CH 15:6 · PSA 89:24 · JER 46:5 · ZEC 11:6

Shape | verb qal, verb pi

to hammer = causative action by which a craftsman uses a hammer to alter the shape a metal object to be used for a different purpose

ISA 2:4 · JOL 4:10 · MIC 4:3

Reinier de Blois

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[כָּתַת] vb. beat, crush by beating Qal beat or crush fine

beat, hammer (ploughshares into swords)

Pi. Pf.;—as Qal 1. beat or crush fine

Pu. and they were beaten in pieces, one nation against another.

Hiph. beat in pieces an enemy

Hoph. and to ruins is the gate crushed

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