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title: מַחְתֶּרֶת — breaking in · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחְתֶּרֶת (4290), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: breaking in. BDB 1906: n.m. breaking in, burglary. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחְתֶּרֶת

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«מַחְתֶּרֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **breaking in** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 4290 · **BDB:** מַחְתֶּ֫רֶת

### Glosses

in (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

breaking in [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4290/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. breaking in, burglary [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4290/#m2)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחְתֶּרֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4290/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 22:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.1/)

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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.

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[Jeremiah 2:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.34/)

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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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