מָרַט marat
Hebrew word for “to smooth” · Strong’s H4803 · used 14 times in 13 verses
Meaning
1) to bare, polish, make smooth or bald or bare; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to make bare; 1a2) to scour, polish; 1b) (Niphal) to be made bald
How it is translated
Glosses given for marat in context, with how often each is used:
- polished 3
- will become bare 2
- smooth skinned 2
- has been polished 2
- pulled out ! 1
- pulled out beard 1
- those who made them bare 1
- polish 1
- made bare 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 21 (4), Leviticus 13 (2), Isaiah 18 (2), 1 Kings 7 (1), Ezra 9 (1), Nehemiah 13 (1), Isaiah 50 (1), Ezekiel 29 (1)
Forms
- מרוטה 3
- ימרט 2
- ומורט 2
- מרטה 2
- ממרט 1
- ואמרטה 1
- ואמרטם 1
- למרטים 1
- למרטה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with marat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חָדַד chadad “be sharp” 3
- בָּזָא baza “to divide” 2
- קַוְקָו qav-qav “might” 2
- מְבוּסָה mevusah “subjugation” 2
- טֶבַח tevach “slaughter” 2
- רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 4
- הָלְאָה haleah “further” 2
- בָּרָק baraq “lightning” 2
- מָשַׁךְ mashakh “to draw” 2
- חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 3
- אָדָם adam “man” 3
- טָהוֹר tahor “pure” 2
Key verses
The verses using marat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Leviticus 13:40 — And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
- 1 Kings 7:45 — And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
- Ezra 9:3 — And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
- Nehemiah 13:25 — And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your…
- Isaiah 18:2 — That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a…
- Isaiah 18:7 — In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a…
- Isaiah 50:6 — I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
- Ezekiel 21:9 — Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
- Ezekiel 21:10 — It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
- Ezekiel 21:11 — And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
- Ezekiel 21:28 — And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is…
- Ezekiel 29:18 — Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet…
See all 13 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.