חָתָה
chata · seize; take up (coals)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2846 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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chata (חָתָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seize; take up (coals)”.
To take hold of, to seize; said above all of taking up coals from the fire.
How to say it
cha·ta
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
- To scoop up embers with a vessel, or to snatch something from someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- carry ×1
- he will seize you ×1
- take ×1
- will heap ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 52:5
El also will tear you down forever; he will seize you and tear you away from your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.
- Proverbs 6:27
Can a man carry fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
- Proverbs 25:22
for you will heap coals on his head, and YHWH will repay you.
- Isaiah 30:14
And he will break it as one breaks a potters’ jar, crushed without sparing, and there will not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water from the pool.”