מָעֹטmâʻôṭ

make smooth, bare, bald; scour, polish

Pronunciation: maw-ote' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4593

Meanings

Qal: passive (Ezra 9:3; Nehemiah 13:25; Ezekiel 21:16)

1. make bare (Ezekiel 29:18; Isaiah 50:6; Nehemiah 13:25)

2. scour, polish (Ezekiel 21:1-200; Ezra 9:14; Ezra 9:16)

Niph`al: is made bald, (by leprosy) (Leviticus 13:40; Leviticus 13:41)

Pu`al: scoured, polished (Ezekiel 21:15; Ezekiel 21:16; 1 Kings 7:45)

Same root

מָעַטmâʻaṭ · H4591properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Ezekiel 21:15 Let their hearts melt with terror, for the sword glitters at every gate. It flashes like lightning and is polished for slaughter!

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).