שָׂחַט
to squeeze
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7818 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
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.
“to squeeze” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb שחט (sâchaṭ). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Found nowhere else but Genesis 40:11. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7818 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.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
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.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 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: Pressed 1×
- American Standard Version: Pressed 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Squeezed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Squeezed 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7818 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7818 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7818 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7818 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- (Qal) to squeeze, press out
Word origin
[ שָׂחַט ] vb. squeeze out;— Qal Gn 40:11
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
שָׁחַט I
- to draw, stretch. Part. pass. שָׁחוּט. Y. Yoma IV, 41ᵈ top (expl. זהב שׁחוט, I Kings X, 17) שהיה משוך כשעוה it was drawn out like wax; Cant. R. to III, 10; Yoma 45ᵃ שנטוה כחוט it was spun like a thread; Ḥull. 30ᵇ. Ib. (to prove that in slaughtering you must draw the knife over the animal’s throat and not chop) אין ושחט אלא ומשך וכ׳ v’shaḥaṭ (Lev. I, 5) means and ‘he shall draw’, and so it says zahab shaḥuṭ (v. supra) and also ḥets shaḥuṭ (Jer. IX, 7; Keri שוחט). e.g. 1 Kings 10:17
שָׁחַט II
- to cut the throat, esp. to slay an animal by cutting the throat according to ritual laws. Ḥull. I, 1 הכל שׁוֹחֲטִין וכ׳ all persons are fit to do the ritual slaughtering, and their act is legal, except &c.; וכולן ששָׁחֲטוּ וכ׳ and all those (mentioned as unfit), if they cut under the supervision of others &c. Ib. II, 3 היה שׁוֹחֵט והתיז וכ׳ if he was cutting (drawing the knife across the throat, v. preced.) and cut the head off with one movement. Ib. 1 השוחט … ושנים וכ׳ if one cuts one organ (windpipe or gullet, v. סִימָן) of a bird, and two &c.; ib. עד שיִשְׁחוֹט וכ׳, v. וָרִיד; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁחוּט; f. שְׁחוּטָה &c. Nidd. 15ᵃ שור ש׳ לפניך the ox lies slaughtered before thee, i.e. the evidence is before you. Ḥull. 95ᵃ בְּשַׂר ש׳ meat of an animal ritually cut, opp. בשר נבלה; a. fr.
- to be cut, killed according to ritual. Ib. 9ᵃ עד … במה נִשְׁחֲטָה, v. חֲזָקָה. Ib. נשחטה הרי היא וכ׳ if it has been properly slaughtered, it is presumed to be permitted until &c.; a. fr.
- to cause to slaughter. Ib. V, 4 בארבע … מַשְׁחִיטִין את הטבח וכ׳ at these four periods we force the butcher to slaughter (provide meat); Erub. 81ᵇ
שְׁחַט
- —[Targ. O. Num. XI, 32 ed. Vien., v. שְׁטַח.]—Ḥull. 28ᵃ sq. היכי נעביד נִשְׁחֲטֵיה … קשְׁחִיט how shall we proceed? shall we cut it and then examine (the gullet)? Maybe it was cut at a perforated spot. Meg. 7ᵇ שַׁחֲטֵיה לר׳ וכ׳ he cut R. Zera’s throat; a. fr.—Part. pass. שְׁחִיט, v. supra. Ḥull. 4ᵃ הוה ש׳ שפיר was properly cut.
- to be cut. Gitt. 69ᵇ
שָׂחַט
- , v. סָחַט
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.
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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