To crush
כָּתַתStrong’s H3807katat (ka-tat)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Katat is the Hebrew word usually translated “beat”, “crushed” and “is crushed”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
Meaning
- To beat, crush by beating, crush to pieces, crush fine(Qal) · (Piel) · (Pual) to be beaten · (Hiphil) to beat in pieces, shatter · (Hophal) to be beaten, be crushed
How it's translated
- and they will beat 2
- they will be crushed 2
- and is crushed 1
- and they scattered them 1
- and they scattered 1
- and i crushed 1
- and he crushed to pieces 1
- and they were crushed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Micah 2
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 22:24Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
- Numbers 14:45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 1:44And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 9:21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
- 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Chronicles 15:6And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּתַת katat · to crush
1) to beat, crush by beating, crush to pieces, crush fine 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to beat or crush fine 1a2) to beat, hammer 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to beat or crush fine 1b2) to beat, hammer 1c) (Pual) to be beaten 1d) (Hiphil) to beat in pieces, shatter 1e) (Hophal) to be beaten, be crushed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRUSH, verb transitive
- To press and bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape; to bruise by pressure.
- To press with violence; to force together into a mass.
- To overwhelm by pressure; to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising; as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.“Who are crushed before the moth” Job 4:19
- To overwhelm by power; to subdue; to conquer beyond resistance; as, to crush ones enemies; to crush a rebellion.
All definitions and other forms of “crush”
- To oppress grievously.“Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always” Deuteronomy 28:33
- To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding; to comminute.
CRUSH, verb intransitive
To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.
CRUSH, noun
A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies; or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass; as the crush of a large tree, or of a building.
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.