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# קֶטֶב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6986

**destruction** — 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

destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6986/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫טֶב: n.m. destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6986/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[קֹ֫טֶב\] n.m. Dt 32:24 destruction;—of pestilence, abs. ק׳ Dt 32:24 (‖ רֶשֶׁף), ψ 91:6 (‖ דֶּבֶר), so sf. (of She’ôl) קָֽטָבְךָ (Ges§ 93 q) Ho 13:14 (‖ of מָוֶת, דְּבָרֶיךָ); more gen., שַׂעַר קָ֑טֶב Is 28:2.

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 (2 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: destruction (3); of destruction (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 91:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.6/#tree)

מִ֭דֶּבֶר בָּאֹ֣פֶל יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב יָשׁ֥וּד צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* from a.plague \[which\].in the gloom it.will.walk from destruction \[which\].it.will.devastate noon(s)

*JPS 1917:* Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

[Deuteronomy 32:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.24/#tree)

מְזֵ֥י רָעָ֛ב וּלְחֻ֥מֵי רֶ֖שֶׁף וְקֶ֣טֶב מְרִירִ֑י וְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמוֹת֙ אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּ֔ם עִם־חֲמַ֖ת זֹחֲלֵ֥י עָפָֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[they.will.be\].weakened of.famine and eaten of.plague and destruction bitter and tooth of.animals I.will.send on them with \[the\].venom of.\[things.which\].crawl of.\[the\].dust

*JPS 1917:* The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6986.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6986/): 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).