amtachat · sack

What it means

amtachat (אַמְתַּחַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sack”.

Bag for carrying grain.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A large sack for grain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bag ×8
• bags ×7

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis 42:27

  One of them opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place, and he saw his silver, and look, it was in the mouth of his bag.

• Genesis 42:28

  He said to his brothers, “My silver has been returned; and look, it is even in my bag!” Their hearts failed, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that Elohim has done to us?”

• Genesis 43:12

  Take double the silver in your hand, and the silver that was returned in the mouth of your bags carry back in your hand; perhaps it was a mistake.

• Genesis 43:18

  The men were afraid because they were brought into the house of Joseph, and they said, “Because of the matter of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time we are being brought in, so that he may assail us, fall upon us, and take us as slaves, and our donkeys.”

• Genesis 43:21

  And when we came to the lodging place and opened our bags, look, each man’s silver was in the mouth of his bag, our silver in its full weight; so we have brought it back in our hand.

• Genesis 43:22

  And other silver we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our bags.”

• Genesis 43:23

  He said, “Peace to you; do not be afraid. Your Elohim and the Elohim of your father has given you treasure in your bags; your silver came to me.” Then he brought out Simeon to them.

• Genesis 44:1

  He commanded the one over his house, saying, “Fill the bags of the men with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s silver in the mouth of his bag.

• Genesis 44:2

  And my cup, the silver cup, put in the mouth of the bag of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did according to the word of Joseph that he had spoken.

• Genesis 44:8

  Look, the silver that we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal from the house of your lord silver or gold?

• Genesis 44:11

  Quickly each man lowered his bag to the ground, and each man opened his bag.

• Genesis 44:12

  He searched, beginning with the oldest and finishing with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s bag.

And 3 more times.