קֶטֶב
ketev · destruction, plague
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6986 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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ketev (קֶטֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “destruction, plague”.
A plague that destroys.
How to say it
ke·tev
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
- A pestilence or calamity that ends everything.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- destroying ×1
- nor the destruction ×1
- plague ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:24
Wasted by hunger, and devoured by burning fever and bitter plague; and the teeth of beasts I will send against them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.
- Psalms 91:6
nor the pestilence that walks in the gloom, nor the destruction that ravages at noon.
- Isaiah 28:2
Look, Adonai has one strong and mighty, like a downpour of hail, a destroying storm, like a downpour of mighty waters that sweep away; he casts it down to the earth with the hand.