Strong H2251חָבַט
to beat
- Transliteration
- châbaţ
- Pronunciation
- khaw-bat'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to knock out or off: - beat ({off} {out}) thresh.
Detailed definition
1) to beat, beat out, beat off, thresh
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to beat out
1a2) to beat off
1b) (Niphal) to be beaten out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to beat out
1a2) to beat off
1b) (Niphal) to be beaten out
In the Bible
Strong H2251 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- beat2
- beaten1
- thou1
- thresh1
First verses
- Deuteronomy 24:20When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Judges 6:11And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Ruth 2:17So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
- Isaiah 27:12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
- Isaiah 28:27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.