כָּתַת
kâthath · kaw-thath'
to bruise or violently strike
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to bruise or violently strike
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp. l
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the mark, the covenant sign › the mark, the covenant sign
The open hand that covers of the mark, the covenant sign of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כָּתַת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and they shall beat2 · 12%
- or crushed1 · 6%
- them, and discomfited1 · 6%
- and destroyed1 · 6%
- and stamped1 · 6%
- and brake in pieces1 · 6%
- was destroyed1 · 6%
- and had beaten1 · 6%
- they are destroyed1 · 6%
- and i will beat down1 · 6%
- is smitten1 · 6%
- that is broken in pieces1 · 6%
- are beaten down1 · 6%
- beat1 · 6%
- thereof shall be beaten to pieces1 · 6%
- and they shall smite1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.