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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

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.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

כָּתַבkathabto writeUses224
כָּתֵףkathephshoulderUses67
כָּתָבkathabwritingUses17
כָּתַרkatharto surroundUses6
כָּתִיתkathithbeatenUses5
כָּתַםkathambe stainedUses1
כָּתַשׁkathashto poundUses1

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.

    Leviticus 22:24

    • 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.

    Numbers 14:45

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 1:44

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 9:21

    • 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.

    2 Kings 18:4

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 15:6

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 34:7

    • 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.

    Job 4:20

    • 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.

    Psalms 89:23

    • 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.

    Isaiah 2:4

    • וְכִתְּת֨וּvekhitetuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will beat
  • The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

    Isaiah 24:12

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 30:14

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 46:5

    • 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!’

    Joel 3:10

    • 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.

    Micah 1:7

    • 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.

    Micah 4:3

    • 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.”

    Zechariah 11:6

    • וְכִתְּתוּ֙vekhitetuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will crush

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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