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# קָסַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7082

**strip off** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strip off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7082/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָסַס: vb. Pōʿ. strip off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7082/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pōʿ. strip off (so context requires; verb otherwise unknown);—Impf. 3 ms. וְאֶת־פִּרְיָהּ יְקוֹסֵס Ez 17:9 and its fruit shall he not strip off?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 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, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: will it strip off? (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 17:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.9/#tree)

אֱמֹ֗ר כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהֹוִ֖ה תִּצְלָ֑ח הֲלוֹא֩ אֶת־שָׁרָשֶׁ֨יהָ יְנַתֵּ֜ק וְאֶת־פִּרְיָ֣הּ ׀ יְקוֹסֵ֣ס וְיָבֵ֗שׁ כָּל־טַרְפֵּ֤י צִמְחָהּ֙ תִּיבָ֔שׁ וְלֹֽא־בִזְרֹ֤עַ גְּדוֹלָה֙ וּבְעַם־רָ֔ב לְמַשְׂא֥וֹת אוֹתָ֖הּ מִשָּׁרָשֶֽׁיהָ׃

*Word for word:* say thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh will.it.prosper? ? not (et) roots its will.it.pull.up and (et) fruit its will.it.strip.off? and it.will.wither all the.fresh.\[things\] its.growth her it.will.wither and not by an.arm great and by a.people numerous to lift.up it from roots its

*JPS 1917:* Say thou: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither, yea, wither in all its sprouting leaves? neither shall great power or much people be at hand when it is plucked up by the roots thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7082.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7082/): 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).