מַחְתֶּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4290

breaking in — 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

breaking in tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְתֶּ֫רֶת: n.m. breaking in, burglary tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. breaking in, burglary—אִם־בַּמּ׳ יִמָּצֵא הַגַּנָּב Ex 22:1 i.e. caught in the act (JE); so לֹא בַּמּ׳ מְצָאתִים Je 2:34, not in the act of breaking in didst thou find them (2 fs. sf. Ges§ 44, 2, R 4), i.e. those whom thou hast slain were not detected in crime.

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 (2 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: in (2).

In the verses

Exodus 22:1 · tree →

אִם־בַּמַּחְתֶּ֛רֶת יִמָּצֵ֥א הַגַּנָּ֖ב וְהֻכָּ֣ה וָמֵ֑ת אֵ֥ין ל֖וֹ דָּמִֽים׃

Word for word: if in.(the) breaking in he.will.be.found the thief and he.will.be.struck and he.will.die there.[will].not.[be] for him blood(s)

JPS 1917: If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

Jeremiah 2:34 · tree →

גַּ֤ם בִּכְנָפַ֙יִךְ֙ נִמְצְא֔וּ דַּ֛ם נַפְשׁ֥וֹת אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים נְקִיִּ֑ים לֹֽא־בַמַּחְתֶּ֥רֶת מְצָאתִ֖ים כִּ֥י עַל־כָּל־אֵֽלֶּה׃

Word for word: also on skirts your they.were.found [the].blood of.[the].lives of.needy.[people] innocent not in.(the) breaking in you found.them (dm) on all these.[things]

JPS 1917: Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor; thou didst not find them breaking in; yet for all these things

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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).

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