Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6986
קֶטֶב
qetebkeh'-teb
destruction
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qeṭeb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6986is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6986
ruin
The King James renders it: destroying, destruction.
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
qeteb is rendered "destruction". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:24וְקֶ֣טֶב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and destruction1
- destruction1
- from destruction1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| קֶטֶל | qetel | slaughter | Uses1 |
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
- וְקֶ֣טֶב1
- מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב1
- קָ֑טֶב1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
- וְקֶ֣טֶבveketevconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and destruction
Psalms
one use
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
- מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶבmiketevpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from destruction
Isaiah
one use
Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.
- קָ֑טֶבkatevnoun · masculine singulartagged: destruction
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.