Kathath means “break in pieces” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3807 — paidagogos (“instructor”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3807 כָּתַת (kathath) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kathath (kaw-thath') v. 1. to bruise or violently strike [a primitive root] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include down, beat, destroyed, pieces, and crushed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
kathath (kaw-thath') v. 1. to bruise or violently strike [a primitive root] KJV: beat (down, to pieces), break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3807. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to crush
Usage: 1) to beat, crush by beating, crush to pieces, crush fine 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to beat or crush fine 1a2) to beat, hammer 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to beat or crush fine 1b2) to beat, hammer 1c) (Pual) to be beaten 1d) (Hiphil) to beat in pieces, shatter 1e) (Hophal) to be beaten, be crushed
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kathath, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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.
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
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.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3807.
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.
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
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.
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.
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.
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
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.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
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.
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
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.
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.
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
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.
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.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3807, grouped by book.
Kathath (Strong's H3807) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "break in pieces". kathath (kaw-thath') v. 1. to bruise or violently strike [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H3807 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3807 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as down, beat, destroyed, pieces, crushed, and smite. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.