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Precipice

בַּתָּהStrong’s H1327

battah (bat-tah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Battah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cliffs”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.”
Isaiah 7:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cliff, precipice, steep
How it's translated
  • the cliffs 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    בַּתָּה battah · precipice

    cliff, precipice, steep

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “precipice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    PREC'IPICE, noun

    [Latin proecipitium, from proeceps, headlong; proe, forward, and ceps, for caput, head. See Chief.]

    1. Strictly, a falling headlong; hence, a steep descent of land; a fall or descent of land, perpendicular or nearly so.
    2. A steep descent, in general.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.