מחתה
Appearance
Hebrew
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hoffmeister suggests מ־ (ma-) + Egyptian ḫt (“fire”).
Klein and Even-Shoshan derive מַ־ (instrumental prefix) + חָתָה (“to rake or snatch coals from a hearth with fire-tongs”) + ־ָה.
Noun
[edit]מַחְתָּה • (maḥtā) f
References
[edit]- Hoffmeier, James K. (2023) “Further Reflections on Egyptian Influences on the Early Hebrews—Priestly Matters”, in Linguistic and Philological Studies of the Hebrew Bible and its Manuscripts in Honor of Gary A. Rendsburg (Studia Semitica Neerlandica; 75)[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 184