Breaking
מַחְתֶּ֫רֶתStrong’s H4290machteret (mach-te-ret)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machteret is the Hebrew word usually translated “breaking in”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.”
Meaning
- A breaking in, burglary
How it's translated
- in breaking in 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַחְתֶּ֫רֶת machteret · breaking
a breaking in, burglary
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breaking” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREAKING, participle present
tense Parting by violence; rending asunder; becoming bankrupt.
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.