Hebrew verb · H3807
כָּתַת
kathathkaw-thath'
to crush
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâthath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3807is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3807
to bruise or violently strike
The King James renders it: beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp. l
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
kathath is rendered "to crush". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 22:24You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.
Leviticus 22:24וְכָתוּת֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they will beat2
- they will be crushed2
- and he crushed to pieces1
- and I crushed1
- and I will crush1
- and is crushed1
- and they scattered1
- and they scattered them1
- and they were crushed1
- and they will crush1
- beat1
- crushed1
and 3 more, 17 uses in all
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- וְכִתְּת֨וּ2
- וָאֶכֹּ֨ת1
- וַֽיַּכְּת֥וּ1
- וַֽיַּכְּת֖וּם1
- וְכָתוּת֙1
- וְכַתּוֹתִ֣י1
- וְכִתַּת֩1
- וְכִתְּתוּ֙1
- וְכֻתְּת֥וּ1
- יֻכַּת־1
- יֻכַּ֑תּוּ1
- יֻכַּ֔תּוּ1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpq3cp4Hc/Vpq3cp
- verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVHi3mp
- Hc/Vhw3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp
- Hc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- Hc/Vqq1cs1Hc/Vqq1cs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqsmsa
- Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
- verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVHi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVqsmsa
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqv2mp
Leviticus
one use
You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.
- וְכָתוּת֙vekhatutconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and is crushed
Numbers
one use
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
- וַֽיַּכְּת֖וּםvaiyaketumHc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they scattered them
Deuteronomy
two uses
Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
- וַֽיַּכְּת֥וּvaiyaketuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they scattered
And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
- וָאֶכֹּ֨תvaekotHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I crushed
2 Kings
one use
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
- וְכִתַּת֩vekhitatHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he crushed to pieces
2 Chronicles
two uses
Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
- וְכֻתְּת֥וּvekhutetuHc/VPq3cptagged: and they were crushed
He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- כִּתַּ֣תkitatverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he crushed
Job
one use
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
- יֻכַּ֑תּוּyukatuverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are crushed to pieces
Psalms
one use
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
- וְכַתּוֹתִ֣יvekhatotiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will crush
Isaiah
three uses
Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
- וְכִתְּת֨וּvekhitetuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will beat
The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
- יֻכַּת־yukat-verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be crushed
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
- כָּת֖וּתkatutverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: crushed
Jeremiah
one use
Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.
- יֻכַּ֔תּוּyukatuverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be crushed
Joel
one use
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
- כֹּ֤תּוּkotuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: beat
Micah
two uses
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
- יֻכַּ֗תּוּyukatuverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be crushed
Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
- וְכִתְּת֨וּvekhitetuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will beat
Zechariah
one use
For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”
- וְכִתְּתוּ֙vekhitetuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will crush
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.
