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# קָצַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7094

**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/1511/7094/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָצַב: vb. cut off, shear Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7094/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut off, shear (?) (NH קָצַב decide, determine, Pi. chop meat; Palm. קצבא butcher, so Syriac ܩܰܨܳܒܳܐ, J.Aram. קַצָּבָא, and Arabic قَصَّابٌ as loan-word Frä 258; Arabic قَضَبَ also is cut off a branch);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּקְצָב־עֵץ 2 K 6:6 he cut off a stick; Pt. pass. fpl. עֵדֶר הַקְצוּבוֹת Ct 4:2 a flock of (sheep) that are shorn (?).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.2/#tree)

שִׁנַּ֙יִךְ֙ כְּעֵ֣דֶר הַקְּצוּב֔וֹת שֶׁעָל֖וּ מִן־הָרַחְצָ֑ה שֶׁכֻּלָּם֙ מַתְאִימ֔וֹת וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין בָּהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* teeth your \[are\].like.(the) flock of.(the) shorn.\[ewes\] which they.have.come.up from the washing which all of.them \[are\].bearing.twins and.\[one\] deprived.of.offspring there.\[is\].not among them

*JPS 1917:* Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike, which are come up from the washing; whereof all are paired, and none faileth among them.

[2 Kings 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.6/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אִישׁ־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אָ֣נָה נָפָ֑ל וַיַּרְאֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַמָּק֔וֹם וַיִּקְצָב־עֵץ֙ וַיַּשְׁלֶךְ־שָׁ֔מָּה וַיָּ֖צֶף הַבַּרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the.man of.(the) God where? did.it.fall and he showed.him (et) the place and he.cut.off a.piece.of.wood and he.threw.\[it\] to (to) and he.caused.to.float the iron

*JPS 1917:* And the man of God said: 'Where fell it?' And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7094.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7094/): 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).