מָרַטmâraṭ
מְעֻטָּה: textual error, see below מרט (Ezekiel 21:20)
Pronunciation: maw-rat' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4803
Meanings
מָרַט: make smooth, bare, bald; scour, polish
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)
: pluck
Pe`îl: were plucked off, (wings) (Daniel 7:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 13:40 “If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean.
- Leviticus 13:41 And if he loses hair on his forehead, he simply has a bald forehead; he is still clean.
- 1 Kings 7:45 the ash buckets, the shovels, and the bowls. Huram made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the Lord, just as King Solomon had directed.
- Ezra 9:3 When I heard this, I tore my cloak and my shirt, pulled hair from my head and beard, and sat down utterly shocked.
- Nehemiah 13:25 So I confronted them and called down curses on them. I beat some of them and pulled out their hair. I made them swear in the name of God that they would not let their children intermarry with the pagan people of the land.
- Isaiah 18:2 that sends ambassadors in swift boats down the river. Go, swift messengers! Take a message to a tall, smooth-skinned people, who are feared far and wide for their conquests and destruction, and whose land is divided by rivers.
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).