Hebrew verb · H4803
מָרַט
maratmaw-rat'
to smooth
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâraṭ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4803is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4803
to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen
The King James renders it: bright, furbish, (have his) hair (be) fallen off, peeled, pluck off (hair).
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
marat is rendered "to smooth". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Six of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 13:40Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
Leviticus 13:40יִמָּרֵ֖ט
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
- polished3
- and smooth skinned2
- it has been polished2
- it will become bare2
- and I pulled out1
- and I pulled out beard their1
- made bare1
- to made bare1
- to polish1
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 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- וּמוֹרָ֔ט2
- יִמָּרֵ֖ט2
- וָאֶמְרְטָ֞ה1
- וָֽאֶמְרְטֵ֑ם1
- לְמָרְטָ֖ה1
- לְמֹֽרְטִ֑ים1
- מְמֹרָֽט׃1
- מְרוּטָ֔ה1
- מְרוּטָ֑ה1
- מְרוּטָֽה׃1
- מֹרָ֑טָּה1
- מֹרָ֔טָּה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular3HVqsfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular2HC/VPsmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVPp3fs
- Hc/Vqw1cs/Sh1Hc/Vqw1cs/Sh
- Hc/Vqw1cs/Sp3mp1Hc/Vqw1cs/Sp3mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HR/Vqrmpa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HVPsmsa
Leviticus
two uses
Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
- יִמָּרֵ֖טyimaretverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will become bare
Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.
- יִמָּרֵ֖טyimaretverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will become bare
1 Kings
one use
and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
- מְמֹרָֽט׃memoratverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: polished
Ezra
one use
When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.
- וָאֶמְרְטָ֞הvaemretahHc/Vqw1cs/Shtagged: and I pulled out
Nehemiah
one use
I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
- וָֽאֶמְרְטֵ֑םvaemretemHc/Vqw1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I pulled out beard their
Isaiah
three uses
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
- וּמוֹרָ֔טumoratconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and smooth skinned
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
- וּמוֹרָ֔טumoratconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and smooth skinned
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
- לְמֹֽרְטִ֑יםlemoretimpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to made bare
Ezekiel
six uses
“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
- מְרוּטָֽה׃merutahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: polished
it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
- מֹרָ֑טָּהmoratahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been polished
The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.
- לְמָרְטָ֖הlemaretahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to polish
- מֹרָ֔טָּהmoratahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been polished
Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
- מְרוּטָ֔הmerutahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: polished
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.
- מְרוּטָ֑הmerutahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: made bare
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.
