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title: כָּתִית — beaten · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּתִית (3795), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: beaten. BDB 1906: adj. beaten. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּתִית

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«כָּתִית» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beaten** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 3795 · **BDB:** כָּתִית²

### Glosses

pressed (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

beaten [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3795/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. beaten [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3795/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. beaten;—only in combin. שֶׁמֶן כָּתִית beaten oil, i.e. oil made by beating or pounding the olives in a mortar; especially fine and costly (cf. Levy NHWB ii. 443 sub כָּתִית);—1 K 5:25 Ex 29:40 Nu 28:5; שֶׁמֶן זַיִת זָךְ כ׳ לַמָּאוֹר Ex 27:20 pure beaten olive oil for the lamp = Lv 24:2 (Hex only P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּתִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3795/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 28:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.5/)

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וַעֲשִׂירִ֧ית הָאֵיפָ֛ה סֹ֖לֶת לְמִנְחָ֑ה בְּלוּלָ֛ה בְּשֶׁ֥מֶן כָּתִ֖ית רְבִיעִ֥ת הַהִֽין׃

*Word for word:* and.(the) tenth of.(the) ephah fine.flour to a.grain.offering mixed with oil pressed (the).fourth of.(the) hin

*JPS 1917:* and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.

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[Leviticus 24:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.24.2/)

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צַ֞ו אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְיִקְח֨וּ אֵלֶ֜יךָ שֶׁ֣מֶן זַ֥יִת זָ֛ךְ כָּתִ֖ית לַמָּא֑וֹר לְהַעֲלֹ֥ת נֵ֖ר תָּמִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* command (et) the.people of.Israel and they.will.bring to you oil of.olive\[s\] pure pressed for the light to lift.up a.lamp continually

*JPS 1917:* 'Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

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