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כָּתַת H3807
H3807 is the Hebrew word כָּתַת, transliterated kâthath and said kaw-thath'. The King James Version most often renders it destroyed.
What it means
to bruise or violently strike.
Where it comes from
a primitive root.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 16 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp. l.
Verses using כָּתַת
All 17 verses, quoted in full.
Leviticus 22:24 · KJV
Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
Numbers 14:45 · KJV
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
Deuteronomy 1:44 · KJV
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Deuteronomy 9:21 · KJV
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
2 Kings 18:4 · KJV
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2 Chronicles 15:6 · KJV
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles 34:7 · KJV
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
Job 4:20 · KJV
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Psalm 89:23 · KJV
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
Isaiah 2:4 · KJV
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 24:12 · KJV
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah 30:14 · KJV
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Jeremiah 46:5 · KJV
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Joel 3:10 · KJV
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Micah 1:7 · KJV
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah 4:3 · KJV
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Zechariah 11:6 · KJV
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
Common questions
What does Strong's H3807 mean?
H3807 is the Hebrew word כָּתַת (kâthath), meaning to bruise or violently strike.
How is H3807 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it destroyed (3 times), beat (3 times), or crushed (1 time), discomfited (1 time), stamped (1 time), among others.
How many times does H3807 appear in the Bible?
כָּתַת (kâthath) is tagged in 17 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H3807 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.
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