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# מְכִתָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4386

**the crushed** — 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

the crushed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4386/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְכִתָּה: n.f. the crushed pulverized crushed fragments [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4386/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. the crushed or pulverized = coll. crushed fragments;—sg. sf. מְכִתָּתוֹ Is 30:14 (result of כָּתוּת, v a).

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.14/#tree)

וּ֠שְׁבָרָהּ כְּשֵׁ֨בֶר נֵ֧בֶל יוֹצְרִ֛ים כָּת֖וּת לֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל וְלֹֽא־יִמָּצֵ֤א בִמְכִתָּתוֹ֙ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לַחְתּ֥וֹת אֵשׁ֙ מִיָּק֔וּד וְלַחְשֹׂ֥ף מַ֖יִם מִגֶּֽבֶא׃פ

*Word for word:* and someone will.break.it like.\[the\] breaking of.a.jar of.potters crushed \[which\].not anyone.will.spare and not it.will.be.found among fragment\[s\] its a.potsherd to snatch.up fire from a.fireplace and to draw water from a.cistern

*JPS 1917:* And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4386/): 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).