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# מַחְתֶּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4290

**breaking in** — used 2 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

breaking in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4290/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְתֶּ֫רֶת: n.m. breaking in, burglary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4290/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. breaking in, burglary—אִם־בַּמּ׳ יִמָּצֵא הַגַּנָּב Ex 22:1 i.e. caught in the act (JE); so לֹא בַּמּ׳ מְצָאתִים Je 2:34, not in the act of breaking in didst thou find them (2 fs. sf. Ges§ 44, 2, R 4), i.e. those whom thou hast slain were not detected in crime.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: in (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 22:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.1/#tree)

אִם־בַּמַּחְתֶּ֛רֶת יִמָּצֵ֥א הַגַּנָּ֖ב וְהֻכָּ֣ה וָמֵ֑ת אֵ֥ין ל֖וֹ דָּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* if in.(the) breaking in he.will.be.found the thief and he.will.be.struck and he.will.die there.\[will\].not.\[be\] for him blood(s)

*JPS 1917:* If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

[Jeremiah 2:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.34/#tree)

גַּ֤ם בִּכְנָפַ֙יִךְ֙ נִמְצְא֔וּ דַּ֛ם נַפְשׁ֥וֹת אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים נְקִיִּ֑ים לֹֽא־בַמַּחְתֶּ֥רֶת מְצָאתִ֖ים כִּ֥י עַל־כָּל־אֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* also on skirts your they.were.found \[the\].blood of.\[the\].lives of.needy.\[people\] innocent not in.(the) breaking in you found.them (dm) on all these.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor; thou didst not find them breaking in; yet for all these things

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4290/): 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).