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חִתּוּל

bandage

H2848 Strong's Hebrew
chittûwl Transliteration
/khit-tool'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

חתול (chittûwl) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “bandage.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Ezekiel 30:21. Sharing its root, it stands alongside חתל, חתלה and חתלן. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
roller
Modern gloss
bandage
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H2848 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Ezekiel 30:21
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Ezekiel 30:21.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 1 · 100%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Roller 1×
  • American Standard Version: Put a bandage 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Or splinted 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bandage 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H2848 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Roller” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H2848 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Put a bandage” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H2848 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Or splinted” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H2848 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Bandage” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. bandage

Word origin

n.[m.] bandage—ח׳ Ez 30:21, for broken arm (in fig. of Pharaoh’s broken arm).

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from חתל (châthal) (H2853) — to wrap.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 779b


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

חָתוּל

  • (v. Fl. to Levy Targ. Dict. I, p. 4261) cat. B. Kam. 80ᵇ. Hor. 13ᵃ. Bekh. 8ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. חֲתוּלִים, … לִין; f. חֲתוּלוֹת. B. Kam. 80ᵃ, sq.; Tosef. ib. VIII, 17. Hor. l. c. מפני מה ח׳ … בעכברים Ms. M. a. Ar. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note; ed. הכל) why have the cats been given power over the mice?—Koh. R. to VI, 11. Cant. R. to VII, 2 ומצא הח׳ מקורעות לפניהם and found the cats lying torn in front of the chickens; Y. Peah III, 17ᵈ top.

חָתוּל ²

  • Ḥull. 52ᵇ.—Pl. חֲתוּלַיָּא, חֲתוּלִין. Targ. Is. XIII, 22; XXXIV, 14 (h. text איים) wild cats. [Hos. IX, 6 חתולין, read: חֲרוּלִין.] e.g. Hosea 9:6

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Same root — word family

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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