כָּתַם
kâtham · H3799 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be stained
State in which dirt is still visible, even after washing
ExamplesJeremiah 2:22 “Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your guilt is before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָוֺןiniquity 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ פָּנִיםface, presence, before 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
- Unclean002001001066
- This word's sole occurrence (Jeremiah 2:22) describes iniquity that remains marked or stained before God despite washing, an image of persisting moral impurity, so it belongs among words for uncleanness.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3799. katham [כָּתַם] verb only Niph`al be stained (Late Hebrew Niph`al id. (Jastr);…
[כָּתַם] verb only
Niph`al be stained (Late Hebrew Niph`al id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶם blood-stain; כְּתִים ᵑ7 (blood-)stained Isa 1:18; כִּיתְמָא blood-stain Jer 2:22; Syriac stain, defile, Participle, also Pa`el, Ethpa`al, and derive.; Arabic is cover, conceal, so Assyrian katâmu; Zinjirli כתם (?) DHMSendsch. P. 37); —
Niph`al Participle, figurative, לְפָנַי עֲוֺנֵךְ נִכְתָּם Jer 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (compare English phrase iniquity of deepest dye).
II. כתם (√ of following; meaning unknown).
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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