Hebrew verb · H2414
חָטַף
chataphkhaw-taf'
to catch
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châṭaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2414is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2414
to clutch; hence, to seize as aprisoner
The King James renders it: catch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chataph is rendered "to catch". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 21:21and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Judges 21:21וַחֲטַפְתֶּ֥ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and you will seize1
- he seizes1
- to seize1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַחֲטַפְתֶּ֥ם1
- יַחְטֹ֥ף1
- לַחֲט֣וֹף1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq2mp1Hc/Vqq2mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
Judges
one use
and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
- וַחֲטַפְתֶּ֥םvachataftemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will seize
Psalms
two uses
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
- לַחֲט֣וֹףlachatofpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to seize
- יַחְטֹ֥ףyachtofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he seizes
The letters
Gematria 97· 817 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.