katat · crush, beat

What it means

katat (כָּתַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crush, beat”.

To pieces; also shatter.

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 beat something to pieces.
2. To beat metal until it takes another shape, as when making tools or weapons.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• crushed ×7
• they will beat ×2
• Beat ×1
• I will crush to pieces ×1
• are beaten down ×1
• battered ×1
• he broke in pieces ×1
• they are shattered ×1
• they will crush ×1
• will be smashed ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1
• Micah×2
• Zechariah×1

• Leviticus 22:24

  And an animal with testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not present to YHWH; in your land you shall not do this.

• Numbers 14:45

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country, and struck them and crushed them as far as Hormah.

• Deuteronomy 1:44

  Then the Amorite who lived in that hill country came out to meet you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you in Seir as far as Hormah.

• Deuteronomy 9:21

  And your sin that you had made, the calf, I took and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

• 2 Kings 18:4

  He removed the high places, broke the standing stones, and cut down the Asherah; and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel had been burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.

• 2 Chronicles 15:6

  Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for Elohim threw them into confusion with every distress.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  he tore down the altars, and the Asherahs and the carved images he crushed to dust, and all the incense altars he cut down throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• Job 4:20

  From morning to evening they are shattered; without anyone noticing they perish forever.

• Psalms 89:23

  And I will crush to pieces his adversaries before him, and those who hate him I will strike.

• Isaiah 2:4

  And he will judge between the nations and decide for many peoples; and they will beat their swords into mattocks and their spears into pruning knives; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.

• Isaiah 24:12

  Desolation is left in the city, and with a crash the gate is battered.

• 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.”

• Jeremiah 46:5

  Why have I seen it? They are dismayed, turning back, and their mighty men are beaten down, and they have fled in flight and do not turn around; terror on every side, declares YHWH.

• Joel 3:10

  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”

• Micah 1:7

  And all her carved images will be smashed, and all her wages will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation; for from the wages of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the wages of a prostitute they will return.”

• Micah 4:3

  And he will judge between many peoples and decide for mighty nations far away; and they will beat their swords into mattocks and their spears into pruning knives; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.

• Zechariah 11:6

  For I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land, declares YHWH; and look, I am handing over human beings, each into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”