מַחְתֶּרֶת
machtereth · H4290 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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breaking in
An action by which humans make a hole in the ground or a wall, usually with a digging tool, in order to gain access to the location behind it
ExamplesExodus 22:2 “If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no guilt for bloodshed on his account.
Jeremiah 2:34 “Also on your skirts is found The lifeblood of the innocent poor; You did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things,
How it’s used In 1 role
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2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Open002001001042
- מַחְתֶּרֶת names the act of breaking through a wall, as a thief digs into a house at night (Exodus 22:2), an opening forced where none existed before.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4290. machtereth מַחְתֶּ֫רֶת noun masculine breaking in, burglary — ׳אִםבַּֿמּ הַגַּנָּב…
מַחְתֶּ֫רֶת noun masculine breaking in, burglary — ׳אִםבַּֿמּ הַגַּנָּב יִמָּצֵא Exo 22:1 i.e. caught in the act (JE); so בַּמּ ׳לֹא מְצָאתִים Jer 2:34, not in the act of breaking in didst thou find them (2 feminine singular suffix Ges§ 44, 2, R 4), i.e. those whom thou hast slain were not detected in crime.
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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