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# קָמַט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7059

**seize** — 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

seize [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7059/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָמַט: vb. seize [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7059/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. seize (NH id., seize, grasp, press together; Arabic قَمَطَ bind together; Aramaic קְמַט = BH; ܩܡܰܛ seize, compress);— Impf. 2 ms. sf. וַתִּקְמְטֵנִי Jb 16:8 and thou didst seize me. be snatched (untimely) Pf. 3 pl. קֻמְּטוּ Jb 22:16.

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 (1 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: they were seized (1); you (1).

## In the verses

[Job 22:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.16/#tree)

אֲשֶֽׁר־קֻמְּט֥וּ וְלֹא־עֵ֑ת נָ֝הָ֗ר יוּצַ֥ק יְסוֹדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* who they.were.seized and not an.appropriate.time a.river it.was.poured.out foundation their

*JPS 1917:* Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream;

[Job 16:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.8/#tree)

וַֽ֭תִּקְמְטֵנִי לְעֵ֣ד הָיָ֑ה וַיָּ֥קָם בִּ֥י כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗י בְּפָנַ֥י יַעֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you have.seized.me (into).a witness it.has.become and it.has.risen.up on me leanness my in face my it.testifies

*JPS 1917:* And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7059.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7059/): 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).