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# קַלַּחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7037

**kettle** — 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

kettle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7037/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַלַּ֫חַת: n.f. caldron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7037/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. caldron (ErmanZMG xivi (1892), 121 cp. Egyptian ḳrḥt, pot, cf. OCopt. ǵalaḥt LagBN 88, wh. has come back as loan-wd. WMMAs. u. Eur. 94);—abs. ק׳ 1 S 2:14 (+ כִּיּוֹר, דּוּד, פָּרוּר); קַלָּ֑חַת Mi 3:3 (‖ סִיר).

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

## In the verses

[Micah 3:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.3.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.3.3/#tree)

וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר אָכְלוּ֮ שְׁאֵ֣ר עַמִּי֒ וְעוֹרָם֙ מֵעֲלֵיהֶ֣ם הִפְשִׁ֔יטוּ וְאֶת־עַצְמֹֽתֵיהֶ֖ם פִּצֵּ֑חוּ וּפָרְשׂוּ֙ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּסִּ֔יר וּכְבָשָׂ֖ר בְּת֥וֹךְ קַלָּֽחַת׃

*Word for word:* and.\[those\] who they.have.eaten the.flesh my.people my and skin their from on them they.have.stripped.off and (et) bones their they.have.broken.in.pieces and they.have.chopped.\[them\].up just as in the pot and like meat in.\[the\] midst of.a.caldron

*JPS 1917:* Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones; yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

[1 Samuel 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.14/#tree)

וְהִכָּ֨ה בַכִּיּ֜וֹר א֣וֹ בַדּ֗וּד א֤וֹ בַקַּלַּ֙חַת֙ א֣וֹ בַפָּר֔וּר כֹּ֚ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר יַעֲלֶ֣ה הַמַּזְלֵ֔ג יִקַּ֥ח הַכֹּהֵ֖ן בּ֑וֹ כָּ֚כָה יַעֲשׂ֣וּ לְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַבָּאִ֥ים שָׁ֖ם בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.thrust.\[it\] in the pot or in the.cooking pot or in the caldron or in the pot all that it.brought.up the fork he.took the priest for himself thus they.did to all Israel \[which was\].coming there at Shiloh

*JPS 1917:* and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7037.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7037/): 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).