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title: קַלַּחַת — kettle · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַלַּחַת (7037), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: kettle. BDB 1906: n.f. caldron. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַלַּחַת

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«קַלַּחַת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **kettle** — 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:** 7037 · **BDB:** קַלַּ֫חַת

### Glosses

caldron (1); of.a.caldron (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

kettle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7037/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. caldron [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7037/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. caldron (ErmanZMG xivi (1892), 121 cp. Egyptian ḳrḥt, pot, cf. OCopt. ǵalaḥt LagBN 88, wh. has come back as loan-wd. WMMAs. u. Eur. 94);—abs. ק׳ 1 S 2:14 (+ כִּיּוֹר, דּוּד, פָּרוּר); קַלָּ֑חַת Mi 3:3 (‖ סִיר).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַלַּחַת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7037/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Micah 3:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.3.3/)

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וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר אָכְלוּ֮ שְׁאֵ֣ר עַמִּי֒ וְעוֹרָם֙ מֵעֲלֵיהֶ֣ם הִפְשִׁ֔יטוּ וְאֶת־עַצְמֹֽתֵיהֶ֖ם פִּצֵּ֑חוּ וּפָרְשׂוּ֙ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּסִּ֔יר וּכְבָשָׂ֖ר בְּת֥וֹךְ קַלָּֽחַת׃

*Word for word:* and.\[those\] who they.have.eaten the.flesh my.people my and skin their from on them they.have.stripped.off and (et) bones their they.have.broken.in.pieces and they.have.chopped.\[them\].up just as in the pot and like meat in.\[the\] midst of.a.caldron

*JPS 1917:* Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones; yea, they chop them in pieces, as that which is in the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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[1 Samuel 2:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.14/)

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וְהִכָּ֨ה בַכִּיּ֜וֹר א֣וֹ בַדּ֗וּד א֤וֹ בַקַּלַּ֙חַת֙ א֣וֹ בַפָּר֔וּר כֹּ֚ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר יַעֲלֶ֣ה הַמַּזְלֵ֔ג יִקַּ֥ח הַכֹּהֵ֖ן בּ֑וֹ כָּ֚כָה יַעֲשׂ֣וּ לְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַבָּאִ֥ים שָׁ֖ם בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.thrust.\[it\] in the pot or in the.cooking pot or in the caldron or in the pot all that it.brought.up the fork he.took the priest for himself thus they.did to all Israel \[which was\].coming there at Shiloh

*JPS 1917:* and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh.

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