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חָבַט

châbaṭ · H2251 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to beat, to thresh

    Action by which humans strike another object repeatedly + with a stick or a similar wooden instrument, so that items attached to this object will be released

    Examples

    Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you are not to search through the branches again; that shall be left for the stranger, the orphan, and for the widow.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words
דּוּשׁ dûwsh · H1758 · to tread out, to thresh, to trample
Both refer to the agricultural process of separating grain from chaff by impact, though דּוּשׁ emphasizes trampling/treading while חָבַט emphasizes beating/striking
נָכָה nâkâh · H5221 · to hit, to beat, to strike
General Hebrew verb for striking/beating actions; נָכָה is the more common and broadly applied term for striking, while חָבַט is more specialized for beating off/out (particularly in agricultural contexts)
In the other Testament 1 word
τύπτω týptō · G5180 · to hit, to strike, to beat
Common Greek verb for striking/beating actions, often used to translate Hebrew verbs of impact and striking
Semantic domains 1 entry
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חָבַט denotes beating or threshing, as olives are beaten off the tree and Gideon beats out wheat in the winepress.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2251. chabat [חָבַט] verb beat off, beat out (Late Hebrew id.; strike, beat, Arabic ,…
H2251. chabat
[חָבַט] verb beat off, beat out (Late Hebrew id.; strike, beat, Arabic , Aramaic , חֲבַט) —
Qal Imperfect יַחְבֹּט Isa 27:12; Isa 27:3feminine singular וַתַּחְבֹּט Rth 2:17; Rth 2:2masculine singular תַּחְבֹּט Deu 24:20; Participle חֹבֵט Jdg 6:11; —
1 beat off, זֵיתְךָ Deu 24:20.
2 beat out (grain), Gideon בַּגַּת חִטִּים חֹבֵט Jdg 6:11, so Rth 2:17, of small quantities; — distinct from threshing on open floor, with cattle; figurative of ׳יs judgment, and subsequent gathering of Israel Isa 27:12 (no object expressed), so Che Di Du; Ges Hi Kn Brd place below 1; VB undecided.
Niph`al Imperfect יֵחָ֫בֶט Isa 28:27 fennel (קֵצַךְ) beaten out בַּמַּטֶּה.
חֳבָיָה חֲבִיָּה, חֲבָיָה, see below חבה.
חֶבְיוֺן see below חבה.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Impact5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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