חָתָה
châthâh · H2846 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to scoop
Causative action by which humans take small objects from a particular location with an object shaped like a shovel, in order to transfer them to another location
ExamplesProverbs 6:27 Can anyone take fire in his lap And his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs 25:22 For you will heap burning coals on his head, And the LORD will reward you.
Isaiah 30:14 Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar, So ruthlessly shattered That a shard will not be found among its pieces To take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern.”
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to snatch up
Causative action by which deities remove humans by force from their dwelling-place
ExamplesPsalm 52:5 But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
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
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- אַתָּהyou 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֵשׁfire 2
- גֶּחֶלburning coal 1
- ךָּyou 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- מִןfrom+ יָקַדto burn 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
- בin/on/with+ חֵיקbosom 1
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- חָתָה describes taking up or snatching something from its place, used of scooping up burning coals to heap on an enemy's head (Proverbs 25:22) or snatching fire into one's lap (Proverbs 6:27).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2846. chathah [חָתָה] verb snatch up, usually fire, coals (Late Hebrew id.; חֲתָא ᵑ7,…
[חָתָה] verb snatch up, usually fire, coals (Late Hebrew id.; חֲתָא ᵑ7, id. (rare); Assyrian —atû is destroy (i.e. snatch away ?) see SASmAsrb i. 90) —
Qal Imperfect יַחְתֶּה Pro 6:27; suffix יַחְתְּךָ Psa 52:7; Infinitive construct לַחְתּוֺת Isa 30:14; Participle חֹתֶה Pro 25:22; — snatch up, with accusative מִיָּקוּד אֵשׁ Isa 30:14 to snatch up fire from a hearth (|| מִגֶּבֶא מים לַחְשׂף); בְּחֵיקוֺ אֵשׁ Pro 6:27 shall a man snatch up fire in his bosom and his garments not be burned ? (in simile of adulterer); pregnantly seize (and put) upon ח אַתָּה ׳גְּחָלִים עלרֿאֹשׁוֺ Pro 25:22; מֵאֹ֑הֶל וְיִסָּֽחֲךָ יַחְתְּךָ Psa 52:7 God . . . shall snatch thee away, and pluck thee up tent-less.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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