חָבַטchâbaṭ
beat off, beat out
Pronunciation: khaw-bat' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2251
Meanings
Qal
1. beat off (Deuteronomy 24:20)
2. beat out (grain), of small quantities; — distinct from threshing on open floor, with cattle (Judges 6:11; Ruth 2:17; Isaiah 27:12)
Niph`al: beaten out (Isaiah 28:27)
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your olive trees, don’t go over the boughs twice. Leave the remaining olives for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.
- Judges 6:11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.
- Ruth 2:17 So Ruth gathered barley there all day, and when she beat out the grain that evening, it filled an entire basket.
- Isaiah 27:12 Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.
- Isaiah 28:27 A heavy sledge is never used to thresh black cumin; rather, it is beaten with a light stick. A threshing wheel is never rolled on cumin; instead, it is beaten lightly with a flail.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).