Chavat חָבַט

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Chavat
חָבַט
Transliterationchavat
Strong's numberH2251
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto beat
Occurrences5 in 5 verses
Most frequent inIsaiah (2)

Chavat (Hebrew חָבַט, Strong's H2251) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to beat”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to beat, beat out, beat off, thresh
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to beat out
1a2) to beat off
1b) (Niphal) to be beaten out

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVout (2), beatest (1), threshed (1), off (1)
BSByou beat (1), was threshing (1), she beat out (1), will thresh (1), is beaten out (1)

Verses

Every verse with Chavat, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

Judges

Ruth

Isaiah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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