Fragment
מְכִתָּהStrong’s H4386mekhittah (me-khit-tah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mekhittah is the Hebrew word usually translated “among fragment its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.”
Meaning
- Crushed or pulverised fragments
How it's translated
- among fragment its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְכִתָּה mekhittah · fragment
crushed or pulverised fragments
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fragment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FRAG'MENT, noun
[Latin fragmentum, from frango, to break.]
- A part broken off; a piece separated from any thing by breaking.“Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing is lost” John 6:12
- A part separated from the rest; an imperfect part; as fragments of ancient writings.
- A small detached portion; as fragments of time.
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.