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title: מְכִתָּה — the crushed · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְכִתָּה (4386), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: the crushed. BDB 1906: n.f. the crushed pulverized crushed fragments. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְכִתָּה

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«מְכִתָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **the crushed** — 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:** 4386 · **BDB:** מְכִתָּה

### Glosses

fragment\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

the crushed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4386/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. the crushed pulverized crushed fragments [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4386/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. the crushed or pulverized = coll. crushed fragments;—sg. sf. מְכִתָּתוֹ Is 30:14 (result of כָּתוּת, v a).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 «מְכִתָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4386/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 30:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.14/)

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וּ֠שְׁבָרָהּ כְּשֵׁ֨בֶר נֵ֧בֶל יוֹצְרִ֛ים כָּת֖וּת לֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל וְלֹֽא־יִמָּצֵ֤א בִמְכִתָּתוֹ֙ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לַחְתּ֥וֹת אֵשׁ֙ מִיָּק֔וּד וְלַחְשֹׂ֥ף מַ֖יִם מִגֶּֽבֶא׃פ

*Word for word:* and someone will.break.it like.\[the\] breaking of.a.jar of.potters crushed \[which\].not anyone.will.spare and not it.will.be.found among fragment\[s\] its a.potsherd to snatch.up fire from a.fireplace and to draw water from a.cistern

*JPS 1917:* And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.

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