To beat
חָבַטStrong’s H2251chavat (cha-vat)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavat is the Hebrew word usually translated “beat”, “beating out” and “beat out”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.”
Meaning
- To beat, beat out, beat off, thresh(Qal) · (Niphal) to be beaten out
How it's translated
- you will beat 1
- beating out 1
- and she beat out 1
- he will beat out 1
- it is beaten out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- Ruth 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 6:11And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Ruth 2:17So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
- Isaiah 27:12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
- Isaiah 28:27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Hebrew dictionary
חָבַט chavat · to beat
1) to beat, beat out, beat off, thresh 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to beat out 1a2) to beat off 1b) (Niphal) to be beaten out
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEAT, verb transitive
preterit tense beat; participle passive beat beaten. [Latin batuo. See Abate.]
- To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12:45Deuteronomy 25:3
- To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.
- To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36
- To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance; or to hammer into any form; to forge. Exodus 39:3
All definitions and other forms of “beat”
- To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
- To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.
- To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
- To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.
- To tread, as a path.
- To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.
- To harass; to exercise severely; to overlabor; as, to beat the brains about logic.
BEAT, verb intransitive
To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats; or to throb, as the heart beats.
- To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.
- To knock at a door. Judges 19:22
- To fluctuate; to be in agitation.
BEAT, noun
A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.
- A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.
- The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
- A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.
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.