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# קֶטֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6993

**slaughter** — 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

slaughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6993/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫טֶל: slaughter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6993/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] slaughter;—מִקָּ֑טֶל MT Ob 9, but join to v 10 (then מִקֶּטֶל), 𝔊 We Now GASm.

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 (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: slaughter (1).

## In the verses

[Obadiah 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.9/#tree)

וְחַתּ֥וּ גִבּוֹרֶ֖יךָ תֵּימָ֑ן לְמַ֧עַן יִכָּֽרֶת־אִ֛ישׁ מֵהַ֥ר עֵשָׂ֖ו מִקָּֽטֶל׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.dismayed your warriors O.Teman so.that he.may.be.cut.off everyone from the.mountain of.Esau from slaughter

*JPS 1917:* And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6993.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6993/): 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).