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title: כָּתַם — be stained · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּתַם (3799), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: be stained. BDB 1906: vb. Niph. be stained. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּתַם

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«כָּתַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be stained** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3799 · **BDB:** כָּתַם

### Glosses

\[is\].stained (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be stained [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3799/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. Niph. be stained [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3799/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Niph. be stained (NH Niph. id. (Jastr); כֶּתֶם blood-stain; 𝔗 כְּתִים (blood-) stained Is 1:18; כִּיתְמָא blood-stain Je 2:22; Syriac ܟܬܰܡ stain, defile, Pt., also Pa. Ethpa., and deriv.; Arabic كَتَمَ is cover, conceal, so Assyrian katâmu; Zinj. כתם(?), DHMSendsch. p. 37);— Pt., fig., נִכְתָּם עֲוֹנֵךְ לְפָנַי Je 2:22 stained is thine iniquity before me (cf. Eng. phr. iniquity of deepest dye).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּתַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3799/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 2:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.22/)

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כִּ֤י אִם־תְּכַבְּסִי֙ בַּנֶּ֔תֶר וְתַרְבִּי־לָ֖ךְ בֹּרִ֑ית נִכְתָּ֤ם עֲוֺנֵךְ֙ לְפָנַ֔י נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) though you.will.wash with (the) soda and you.will.increase for yourself soap \[is\].stained iniquity your before me the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord GOD.

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