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# חָבַט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2251

**beat off** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

beat off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2251/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָבֵט: vb. beat off, beat out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2251/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. beat off, beat out (NH id., strike, beat, Arabic خَبَط, Aramaic ܚܒܰܛ, חֲבַט)— Impf. יַחְבֹּט Is 27:12; 3 fs. וַתַּחְבֹּט Ru 2:17; 2 ms. תַּחְבֹּט Dt 24:20; Pt. חֹבֵט Ju 6:11;— beat off, זֵיתְךָ Dt 24:20. beat out (grain), Gideon חֹבֵט חִטִּים בַּגַּת Ju 6:11, so Ru 2:17, of small quantities;—distinct from threshing on open floor, with cattle; fig. of י׳’s judgment, and subsequent gathering of Isr. Is 27:12 (no obj. expr.), so Che Di Du; Ges Hi Kn Brd place sub 1; VB undecided. Impf. יֵחָ֫בֶט Is. 28:27 fennel (קֶצַח) beaten out בַּמַּטֶּה.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] beating out (1); he will beat out (1); it is beaten out (1).

## In the verses

[Ruth 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.17/#tree)

וַתְּלַקֵּ֥ט בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה עַד־הָעָ֑רֶב וַתַּחְבֹּט֙ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־לִקֵּ֔טָה וַיְהִ֖י כְּאֵיפָ֥ה שְׂעֹרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and she.gleaned in the field until the evening and she.beat.out (et) \[that\].which she.had.gleaned and it.was about an.ephah barley(s)

*JPS 1917:* So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

[Deuteronomy 24:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.20/#tree)

כִּ֤י תַחְבֹּט֙ זֵֽיתְךָ֔ לֹ֥א תְפָאֵ֖ר אַחֲרֶ֑יךָ לַגֵּ֛ר לַיָּת֥וֹם וְלָאַלְמָנָ֖ה יִהְיֶֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) you.will.beat tree your.olive not you.will.go.over.the.branches behind you to the sojourner to the.fatherless one and to the widow it.will.belong

*JPS 1917:* When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2251.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2251/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).