Word Study · Strong's H7037 · Hebrew

קַלַּחַת

qallachath

kal-lakh'-ath

“a kettle”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a kettle

Rendered in the KJV as

caldron.

2
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
2
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 2 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 2

בַקַּלַּ֙חַת֙1
קַלָּֽחַת׃1

How it is rendered · 2

a caldron1
in the caldron1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · feminine singular1
preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNcfsa · 1
HRd/Ncfsa · 1

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The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

1 Samuel1 of 2 · 50%
Micah1 of 2 · 50%

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1 Samuel1 occurrence

1 Samuel 2:14בַקַּלַּ֙חַת֙vakalachatpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singularand plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.here: in the caldron

Micah1 occurrence

Micah 3:3קַלָּֽחַת׃kalachatnoun · feminine singularYou eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”here: a caldron

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