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To catch

חָטַףStrong’s H2414

chataph (cha-taph)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Chataph is the Hebrew word usually translated “seize” and “seizes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.”
Judges 21:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to catch, seize
How it's translated
  • and you will seize 1
  • to seize 1
  • he seizes 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1
  • Psalms 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חָטַף chataph · to catch

(Qal) to catch, seize

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

CATCH, verb transitive

  1. To seize or lay hold on with the hand; carrying the sense of pursuit, thrusting forward the hand, or rushing on.“And they came upon him and caught him” Acts 6:12
  2. To seize, in a general sense; as, to catch a ball; to catch hold of a bough.
  3. To seize, as in a snare or trap; to ensnare; to entangle.“They sent certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words” Mark 12:13
  4. To seize in pursuit; hence simply to overtake; a popular use of the word.
All definitions and other forms of “catch”
  1. To take hold; to communicate to.
  2. To seize the affections; to engage and attach to; as, to catch the fair.
  3. To take or receive by contagion or infection; as, to catch the measles or small pox.
  4. To snatch; to take suddenly; as, to catch a book out of the hand.
  5. To receive something passing.

CATCH, verb intransitive

  1. To communicate; to spread by infecting; as, a disease will catch from man to man.
  2. Any thing that seizes or takes hold, as a hook.
  3. The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to catch or of watching an opportunity to seize; as, to lie upon the catch
  4. A sudden advantage taken.
  5. The thing caught, considered as an object of desire; profit; advantage.
  6. A snatch; a short interval of action.
  7. A little portion.
  8. In music, a fugue in the unison, wherein to humor some conceit in the words, the melody is broken, and the sense is interrupted in one part, and caught and supported by another, or a different sense is given to the words; or a piece for three or more voices, one of which leads and the others follow in the same notes.

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.