כָּתַתkâthath
beat, crush by beating
Pronunciation: kaw-thath' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3807
Meanings
Qal
1. beat or crush fine (Isaiah 30:14; Deuteronomy 9:21; Leviticus 22:24)
2. beat, hammer, compare Pi`el 2 (Joel 4:10)
Pi`el
1. beat or crush fine (2 Kings 18:4; 2 Chronicles 34:7; Zechariah 11:6)
2. beat, hammer, compare Qal 2 (Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3)
Pu`al: were beaten in pieces (2 Chronicles 15:6)
Hiph`il: beat in pieces (Deuteronomy 1:44; Numbers 14:45)
Hoph`al: and to ruins is the gate crushed (Isaiah 24:12; Micah 1:7; Jeremiah 46:5)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 22:24 If an animal has damaged testicles or is castrated, you may not offer it to the Lord. You must never do this in your own land,
- Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and attacked them and chased them back as far as Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 1:44 But the Amorites who lived there came out against you like a swarm of bees. They chased and battered you all the way from Seir to Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 9:21 I took your sin—the calf you had made—and I melted it down in the fire and ground it into fine dust. Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
- 2 Kings 18:4 He removed the pagan shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke up the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been offering sacrifices to it. The bronze serpent was called Nehushtan.
- 2 Chronicles 15:6 Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.
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).