To pound
כָּתַשׁStrong’s H3806katash (ka-tash)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Katash is the Hebrew word usually translated “pound”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to pound, mix by pounding, pound fine, bray
How it's translated
- you will pound 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כָּתַשׁ katash · to pound
(Qal) to pound, mix by pounding, pound fine, bray
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pound” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POUND, noun
[Latin pondo, pondus, weight, a pound; pendo, to weigh, to bend.]
- A standard weight consisting of twelve ounces troy or sixteen ounces avoirdupois.
- A money of account consisting of twenty shillings, the value of which is different in different countries.
All definitions and other forms of “pound”
POUND, noun
An inclosure erected by authority, in which cattle or other beasts are confined when taken in trespassing, or going at large in violation of law; a pin-fold.
POUND, verb transitive
To confine in a public pound
POUND, verb transitive
- To beat; to strike with some heavy instrument, and with repeated blows, so as to make an impression.
- To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine parts by a heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
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.