Word

כָּתַשׁ

kâthash · H3806 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

to pound

Causative action by which humans strike an object repeatedly with the help of a pestle in a mortar

Examples
Proverbs 27:22 Though you pound the fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, His foolishness still will not leave him.

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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֱוִילfoolish 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with+ מַכְתֵּשׁmortar 1
בin/on/with+ עֱלִיpestle 1
בin/on/with+ תָּוֶךְmiddle 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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Near synonyms 2 words

דָּכָא dâkâʼ · H1792 · to crush: Hebrew verb denoting crushing or pulverizing action; דָּכָא shares the semantic field of reducing something to smaller pieces through impact or pressure, overlapping with the braying/crushing sense of כָּתַשׁ.
שָׁחַק shâchaq · H7833 · to grind to powder, to pulverize, to wear away: Hebrew verb meaning to beat fine or grind to powder; שָׁחַק describes the action of reducing substances to fine particles, closely parallel to the braying action of כָּתַשׁ used in Proverbs 27:22 for pounding grain in a mortar.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Impact002001001024: This word's sole occurrence (Proverbs 27:22) describes pounding grain with a pestle, a repeated striking or crushing action, so it belongs among words associated with impact.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כָּתַשׁkâthash · H3806מַכְתֵּשׁ maktêsh · H4388 · mortar, hollow place · 2×מַכְתֵּשׁ Maktêsh · H4389 · mortar, hollow place · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3806. kathash [כָּתַשׁ] verb pound, pound fine, bray (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּתַשׁ;…

H3806. kathash
[כָּתַשׁ] verb pound, pound fine, bray (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּתַשׁ; Syriac is strive, contend; Zinjirli כתש break in pieces, shatter, DHMSendsch. 58); —
Qal Imperfect בַּמַּכְתֵּשׁ אֶתהָֿאֱוִיל אִםתִּֿכְתּוֺשׁ Pro 27:22 if thou shouldest bray the fool in the mortar.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Impact1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0