Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to lay hold of; especially to pick up fire
KJV Usage: heap, take (away)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָתָה (cha.tah) — to snatch up. (Qal) to take hold of, seize, take away, pile up, snatch up (coals)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַחְתָּה
Space | verb qal
to scoop = causative action by which humans take small objects from a particular location with an object shaped like a shovel ► in order to transfer them to another location
Space | verb qal | ≈ נסח · נתץ · שׁרשׁ
to snatch up = causative action by which deities remove humans by force from their dwelling-place
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָתָה] vb. snatch up, usu. fire, coals base