חָתָהchâthâh
snatch up, usually fire, coals
Pronunciation: khaw-thaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2846
Meanings
Qal: snatch up (Proverbs 6:27; Psalms 52:7; Isaiah 30:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Psalms 52:5 But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude
- Proverbs 6:27 Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire?
- Proverbs 25:22 You will heap burning coals of shame on their heads, and the Lord will reward you.
- Isaiah 30:14 You will be smashed like a piece of pottery— shattered so completely that there won’t be a piece big enough to carry coals from a fireplace or a little water from the well.”
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).