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# כָּתַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3799

**be stained** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be stained [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3799/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּתַם: vb. Niph. be stained [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3799/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Niph. be stained (NH Niph. id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶם blood-stain; 𝔗 כְּתִים (blood-) stained Is 1:18; כִּיתְמָא blood-stain Je 2:22; Syriac ܟܬܰܡ stain, defile, Pt., also Pa. Ethpa., and deriv.; Arabic كَتَمَ is cover, conceal, so Assyrian katâmu; Zinj. כתם(?), DHMSendsch. p. 37);— Pt., fig., נִכְתָּם עֲוֹנֵךְ לְפָנַי Je 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (cf. Eng. phr. iniquity of deepest dye).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: \[is\] stained (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/#tree)

כִּ֤י אִם־תְּכַבְּסִי֙ בַּנֶּ֔תֶר וְתַרְבִּי־לָ֖ךְ בֹּרִ֑ית נִכְתָּ֤ם עֲוֺנֵךְ֙ לְפָנַ֔י נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) though you.will.wash with (the) soda and you.will.increase for yourself soap \[is\].stained iniquity your before me the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord GOD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3799.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3799/): 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).