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title: קֶטֶב — destruction · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֶטֶב (6986), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: destruction. BDB 1906: n.m. destruction. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֶטֶב

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«קֶטֶב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **destruction** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 6986 · **BDB:** קֶ֫טֶב

### Glosses

destruction (3); of.destruction (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

destruction [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6986/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. destruction [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6986/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** \[קֹ֫טֶב\] n.m. Dt 32:24 destruction;—of pestilence, abs. ק׳ Dt 32:24 (‖ רֶשֶׁף), ψ 91:6 (‖ דֶּבֶר), so sf. (of She’ôl) קָֽטָבְךָ (Ges§ 93 q) Ho 13:14 (‖ of מָוֶת, דְּבָרֶיךָ); more gen., שַׂעַר קָ֑טֶב Is 28:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֶטֶב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6986/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 91:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.6/)

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מִ֭דֶּבֶר בָּאֹ֣פֶל יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב יָשׁ֥וּד צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* from a.plague \[which\].in the gloom it.will.walk from destruction \[which\].it.will.devastate noon(s)

*JPS 1917:* Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

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[Deuteronomy 32:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.24/)

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מְזֵ֥י רָעָ֛ב וּלְחֻ֥מֵי רֶ֖שֶׁף וְקֶ֣טֶב מְרִירִ֑י וְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמוֹת֙ אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּ֔ם עִם־חֲמַ֖ת זֹחֲלֵ֥י עָפָֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[they.will.be\].weakened of.famine and eaten of.plague and destruction bitter and tooth of.animals I.will.send on them with \[the\].venom of.\[things.which\].crawl of.\[the\].dust

*JPS 1917:* The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.

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