Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4290
מַחְתֶּרֶת
machterethmakh-teh'-reth
breaking
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4290is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4290
a burglary; figuratively, unexpected examination
The King James renders it: breaking up, secret search.
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
machtereth is rendered "breaking". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 22:2If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
Exodus 22:2בַּמַּחְתֶּ֛רֶת
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
- in the breaking in2
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחְתָּה | machtah | censer | Uses22 |
| מַחְמָד | machmad | desire | Uses13 |
| מַחְסוֹר | machsor | need | Uses13 |
| מַחְשָׁךְ | machshak | darkness | Uses7 |
| מַחְצֵב | machtseb | hewing | Uses3 |
| מַחְלִי | Machli | Mahlite | Uses2 |
| מַחְלָפָה | machlaphah | lock | Uses2 |
| מַחְלֻי | machluy | suffering | Uses1 |
| מַחְמֻד | machmud | desirable | Uses1 |
| מַחְמָל | machmal | compassion | Uses1 |
| מַחְסוֹם | machsom | muzzle | Uses1 |
| מַחְשֹׂף | machsoph | exposing | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- בַמַּחְתֶּ֥רֶת1
- בַּמַּחְתֶּ֛רֶת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular2HRd/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
- בַּמַּחְתֶּ֛רֶתbamachteretpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the breaking in
Jeremiah
one use
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
- בַמַּחְתֶּ֥רֶתvamachteretpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the breaking in
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.