marat · make bald, polish

What it means

marat (מָרַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “make bald, polish”.

Pluck out hair; said of the head, become bald. Also polish (a sword or bronze).

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. To pull out someone's hair or beard, as a gesture of grief or humiliation.
2. To rub a metal until it shines; to polish it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• polished ×4
• pulled out ×3
• loses its hair ×2
• polish ×1
• rubbed bare ×1
• were of burnished ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×6

• Leviticus 13:40

  And if a man’s head loses its hair, he is bald; he is clean.

• Leviticus 13:41

  And if his head loses its hair from the front of his face, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.

• 1 Kings 7:45

  and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls. And all these utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of YHWH were of burnished bronze.

• Ezra 9:3

  And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled out some of the hair of my head and my beard, and sat appalled.

• Nehemiah 13:25

  And I contended with them and cursed them and struck some men of them, and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by Elohim: “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take any of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

• Isaiah 50:6

  My back I gave to those who struck, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; my face I did not hide from humiliations and spit.

• Ezekiel 21:9

  “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘Thus says Adonai: Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished.

• Ezekiel 21:10

  To slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened; so that it may have lightning it is polished. Or shall we rejoice? The scepter of my son despises every tree.

• Ezekiel 21:11

  And he gave it to polish, to grasp it with the palm; it is sharpened, the sword, and it is polished, to put it into the hand of the killer.

• Ezekiel 21:28

  “And you, son of man, prophesy and say: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach. And say: A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, so that it may have lightning,

• Ezekiel 29:18

  “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army perform a great labor against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; and there was no wage for him or for his army from Tyre for the labor that he labored against her.

And 1 more times.