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# חָתָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2846

**snatch up** — used 4 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

snatch up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2846/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָתָה: vb. snatch up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2846/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. snatch up, usually fire, coals (NH id.; 𝔗 חֲתָא id. (rare); Assyrian ḫatû is destroy (i.e. snatch away?) v. SASmithAsrb. i. 90)— Impf. יַחְתֶּה Pr 6:27; sf. יַחְתְּךָ ψ 52:7; Inf. cstr. לַחְתּוֹת Is 30:14; Pt. חֹתֶה Pr 25:22;—snatch up, c. acc. אֵשׁ מִיָּקוּד Is 30:14 to snatch up fire from a hearth (‖ לַחְשֹׂף מים מִגֶּבֶא); אֵשׁ בְּחֵיקוֹ Pr 6:27 shall a man snatch up fire in his bosom and his garments not be burned? (in sim. of adulterer); pregn. seize (and put) upon גֶּחָלִים אַתָּה ח׳ על־רֹאשׁוֹ Pr 25:22; יַחְתְּךָ וְיִסָּֽחֲךָ מֵאֹ֑הֶל ψ 52:7 God … shall snatch thee away, and pluck thee up tent-less.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[will be\] snatching up (1); he (1); he snatch up? (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.27/#tree)

הֲיַחְתֶּ֤ה אִ֓ישׁ אֵ֬שׁ בְּחֵיק֑וֹ וּ֝בְגָדָ֗יו לֹ֣א תִשָּׂרַֽפְנָה׃

*Word for word:* will he.snatch.up? a.man fire in bosom his and garments his not will.they.be.burned?

*JPS 1917:* Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

[Proverbs 25:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.22/#tree)

כִּ֤י גֶֽחָלִ֗ים אַ֭תָּה חֹתֶ֣ה עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַֽ֝יהוָ֗ה יְשַׁלֶּם־לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) burning.coals you \[will.be\].snatching.up on head his and Yahweh he.will.repay to you

*JPS 1917:* For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD will reward thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2846.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2846/): 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).