Beaten
כָּתִיתStrong’s H3795katit (ka-tit)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Katit is the Hebrew word usually translated “pressed”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.”
Meaning
- Beaten out, pure, pounded fine (in a mortar), costlyof olive oil
How it's translated
- pressed 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
- 1 Kings 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:40And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
- Leviticus 24:2Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
- Numbers 28:5And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
- 1 Kings 5:11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּתִית katit · beaten
1) beaten out, pure, pounded fine (in a mortar), costly 1a) of olive oil
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beaten” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE'ATEN, participle passive
Struck; dashed against; pressed or laid down; hammered; pounded; vanquished; make smooth by treading; worn by use; tracked.
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.