Strong's #4290: machtereth (pronounced makh-teh'-reth)

from 2864; a burglary; figuratively, unexpected examination:--breaking up, secret search.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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machtereth

1) a breaking in, burglary

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H2864

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Exodus 22:2: "If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood"
Jeremiah 2:34: "innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these."