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# כָּסַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3683

**cut off** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cut off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3683/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּסַח: vb. cut off away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3683/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut off or away, a plant (NH id.; Aramaic כְּסַח, ܟܣܰܚ (for Heb. זָמַר); Arabic كَسَحَ sweep off, away, destroy, do away with; cf. Sab. כסח overpower, conquer, HomZMG 1892, 532)—only Pt. pass., fs. כְּסוּחָה ψ 80:17, cut away, of Isr. under fig. of vine; mpl. קוֹצִים כְּסוּחים Is 33:12 thorns cut away, fig. of peoples destroyed by divine judgment.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[it is\] cut down (1); cut down (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 80:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.17/#tree)

שְׂרֻפָ֣ה בָאֵ֣שׁ כְּסוּחָ֑ה מִגַּעֲרַ֖ת פָּנֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[it.is\].burned with (the) fire \[it.is\].cut.down from the.rebuke your.face your they.will.perish

*JPS 1917:* It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.

[Isaiah 33:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/#tree)

וְהָי֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת שִׂ֑יד קוֹצִ֥ים כְּסוּחִ֖ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יִצַּֽתּוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.will.be peoples burnings of.lime thorns cut.down with (the) fire they.will.be.kindled

*JPS 1917:* And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3683.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3683/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).