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# קָצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7096

**cut off** — used 5 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/1511/7096/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָצָה: vb. cut off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7096/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut off (NH id., separate, Ph. קצה cut off, exterminate; Aramaic קְצָא, ܩܨܳܐ break off (e.g. bread); Arabic قَصَا be remote, قُصْيَا remote extremity);— Inf. קְצוֹת עַמִּים Hb 2:10 cutting off many peoples; Vrss קַצּוֹתָ (√ קצץ); Gr Now conj. הֲצִיקוֹתָ. Inf. cstr. לְקַצּוֹת בְּ 2 K 10:32 to cut off in Israel; read prob. לִקְצוֹף to be angry with, 𝔗 Hi Che Crit. n. Is 14:6 (in Comm.) Kmp Kau Benz, 𝔙 Gr לָקוּץ; Pt. מְקַצֶּה רַגְלַיִם Pr 26:6 (fig.). Pf. 3 pl. הִקְצוּ Lv 14:41, acc. dust; Inf. cstr. הִקְצוֹת v 43, acc. house, in both appar. = קָצַע scrape, scrape off (q.v., v 41a), and so prob. read, viz. הִקְצְעוּ, הַקְצִיעַ, RS JPhil. xvi (1888), 72 Dr-Wh Di-Ry Baen.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] cuts off (1); by cutting off (1); cut off (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.6/#tree)

מְקַצֶּ֣ה רַ֭גְלַיִם חָמָ֣ס שֹׁתֶ֑ה שֹׁלֵ֖חַ דְּבָרִ֣ים בְּיַד־כְּסִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].cuts.off feet violence \[one.who\].drinks \[one.who\].sends words by.\[the\] hand of.a.fool

*JPS 1917:* He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh damage.

[Habakkuk 2:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.10/#tree)

יָעַ֥צְתָּ בֹּ֖שֶׁת לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָ קְצוֹת־עַמִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים וְחוֹטֵ֥א נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃

*Word for word:* you.have.planned shame for house your by.cutting.off peoples many and \[you.have\].sinned self your

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast forfeited thy life.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7096.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7096/): 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).