Strong’s
H4290Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Exodus 22:2בַּמַּחְתֶּרֶת
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
- Jeremiah 2:34בַמַּחְתֶּרֶת
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
Brown-Driver-Briggs
מַחְתֶּ֫רֶת n.m. breaking in, burglary
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.