To beat
שָׁחַקStrong’s H7833shachaq (sha-chaq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “beat fine”, “beat fine them” and “rub away”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.”
Meaning
- To rub away, beat fine, pulverise(Qal)
How it's translated
- and you will beat fine 1
- and i beat fine them 1
- they rub away 1
- and i crushed them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:43Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
- Job 14:19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
- Psalms 18:42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁחַק shachaq · to beat
1) to rub away, beat fine, pulverise 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rub away 1a1a) of incense, stones 1a1b) of enemies (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEAT, verb transitive
preterit tense beat; participle passive beat beaten. [Latin batuo. See Abate.]
- To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12:45Deuteronomy 25:3
- To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.
- To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36
- To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance; or to hammer into any form; to forge. Exodus 39:3
All definitions and other forms of “beat”
- To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
- To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.
- To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
- To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.
- To tread, as a path.
- To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.
- To harass; to exercise severely; to overlabor; as, to beat the brains about logic.
BEAT, verb intransitive
To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats; or to throb, as the heart beats.
- To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.
- To knock at a door. Judges 19:22
- To fluctuate; to be in agitation.
BEAT, noun
A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.
- A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.
- The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
- A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.
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.