חָבַט
cha.vat
“to beat”
Definition
to knock out or off
a primitive root;
- to beat, beat out, beat off, thresh 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to beat out 1a2) to beat off 1b) (Niphal) to be beaten out
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
חָבַט appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge,and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin.But caraway is beaten out with a stick,and cumin with a rod.
Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
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