Lexical Definition

‎כָּתַת‎ kâthath (kaw-thath') to crush ^H:V
a primitive root

beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp. l

• to bruise or violently strike

1) to beat, crush by beating, crush to pieces, crush fine
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to beat or crush fine
1a2) to beat, hammer
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to beat or crush fine
1b2) to beat, hammer
1c) (Pual) to be beaten
1d) (Hiphil) to beat in pieces, shatter
1e) (Hophal) to be beaten, be crushed

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎כָּתַת‎] verb beat, crush by beating (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎כְּתַת‎); —

Qal Perfect 1 singular ‎וְכַתּוֺתִ֫י‎ Ps 89:24* Imperfect 1 singular ‎וָאֶבֹּת‎ Deut 9:21 Imperative masculine plural ‎כֹּ֫תּוּ‎ Joel 4:10* Passive participle ‎כָּתוּת‎ Isa 30:14; Lev 22:24 —

1. beat or crush fine, of a potter's vessel Isa 30:14, the golden calf Deut 9:21 (+ ‎טָחוֺן הֵיטֵב‎); a sacrificial vicitim Lev 22:24 (i.e. its testicles; + ‎מָעוּךְ‎ ‎נָתוּק‎ ‎כָּרוּת‎); figurative of enemies Ps 89:24*.

2. beat, hammer (ploughshares into swords, compare Pi`el 2) Joel 4:10*. Pi`el Perfect 3 masculine singular ‎כִּתַּת‎ 2Kgs 18:4; 2Chr 34:7 3 masculine plural ‎וְכִּתְּתוּ‎ consecutive Isa 2:4 + 2 t.; — as

Qal 1. beat or crush fine 2Kgs 18:4; 2Chr 34:7 (of images); figurative of devastating the land Zech 11:6.

2. beat, hammer (swords into ploughshares, compare Qal 2) Isa 2:4 = Mic 4:3. Pu`al Perfect 3 masculine plural ‎וְכֻתְּתוּ‎ 2Chr 15:6 and they were beaten in pieces, one nation against another. Hiph`il Imperfect 3 masculine plural ‎וַיַּכְּתוּ‎ Deut 1:44 beat in pieces an enemy, suffix ‎וַיַּכּוּם וַיַּכְּתוּם‎ Num 14:45. Hoph`al Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎וּשְׁאִיָּה יֻכַּתשָֿׁ֑עַר‎ Isa 24:12 and to ruins is the gate crushed; 3 masculine plural ‎יֻכַּתּוּ‎ Mic 1:7 (of idol-images); figurative of warriors Jer 46:5 of frail man Job 4:20.

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