מַחְתֶּרֶתmachtereth

breaking in, burglary (Exodus 22:1; Jeremiah 2:34)

Pronunciation: makh-teh'-reth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4290

Same root

חָתַרchâthar · H2864to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

Exodus 22:2 “If a thief is caught in the act of breaking into a house and is struck and killed in the process, the person who killed the thief is not guilty of murder.
Jeremiah 2:34 Your clothing is stained with the blood of the innocent and the poor, though you didn’t catch them breaking into your houses!

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).