קָצָה
to cut off
‘to cut off’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
2 distinct verses where H7096 appears in the Hiphil stem, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 14:41 הִקְצ֔וּ Hiphil pf 3cp and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 14:43 הִקְצ֥וֹת Hiphil inf.cs "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, קצה (qâtsâh) means “to cut off.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Leviticus (40%), then 2 Kings and Proverbs. It first appears in Leviticus 14:41. Read the stem: it spans 3 stems, including Qal and Piel. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7096 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 40%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Cut 1×, Cutteth off 1×, Cutting off 1×
- American Standard Version: Cut 1×, Cutteth off 1×, Cutting off 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cutting off 1×, Has been scraped 1×, Is scraped off 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cut off 1×, Cutting off 1×, One cutting off 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7096 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7096 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7096 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7096 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Inf. קְצוֹת עַמִּים Hb 2:10 cutting off many peoples; Vrss קַצּוֹתָ (√ קצץ); Gr Now conj. הֲצִיקוֹתָ. e.g. Habakkuk 2:10
Piel
- 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.). e.g. 2 Kings 10:32
Hiphil
- 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. e.g. Leviticus 14:41
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
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);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קָצָה
- , v. קצי
קצה
- , Pesik. Vayhi, p. 9ᵃ בר ק׳, v. קצְרָה I
קצי
- (b. h.)
- 1. to scrape. Sifra M’tsorʿa, Neg., ch. IV, Par. 7 חולץ וקוֹצֶה וטח he must tear out (the leprous stone) and scrape (the wall) and plaster, v. קָצַע.
- 2. (of figs) to cut, dry, and store; to harvest. Maasr. II, 7 השוכר … לִקְצוֹת עמו וכ׳ if a man hires a laborer to help him in the fig harvest. Ib. III, 1 המעביר … לקצות if a person brings figs over to his court to prepare them for storage. Y. ib. II, 50ᵃ bot. להיות … וקוֹצִין אחת that they eat nine portions and store one; a. fr.—V. מוּקְצֶה.
- 3. to separate, set aside. Nidd. X, 7 (71ᵇ) קוֹצָה לה חלה she may separate the priest’s share of the dough; Y. Ber. VIII, 12ᵃ; a. e.
- 4. to carry off, reduce, level a hill. Cant. R. to V, 11 the fool says, מי יכול לקצות את זה who can level this (mound)?; הריני קוֹצֶה וכ׳ I will carry off two loads to-day …, until I have levelled the entire mound; Lev. R. s. 19 לקצות … קוצץ; (Yalk. Cant. 989 לפנות … קודח).
- to be cut off, separated. Tosef. B. Bath. III, 5 החורשין המוּקְצִין בפני עצמן the forests (near a township) which are isolated (a plantation detached from the town); B. Bath. 68ᵇ המוקצין לה which are separate but opening into it; corrected המוקצין ממנה separated from it; Y. ib. IV, 14ᶜ bot. החורשים המוקצין ממנה (not הטרשים; corr. quot. s. v. טֶרֶשׁ).—Esp. to be set aside, be designated for a special purpose and forbidden for any other use (v. מוּקְצֶה). Sabb. 45ᵃ הואיל וה׳ למצותו ה׳ לאיסורו as the oil was set aside for its religious purpose (for the Sabbath light), it was at the same time set aside as an object prohibited to be used otherwise (during the Sabbath day). Ib. ולית ליה ה׳ למצותו and does he (R. Simon) not adopt the opinion that an object set aside for a religious act is forbidden for any other use (for the time being)?; a. e.—Part. מוּקְצֶה q. v.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H7096 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הִקְצ֔וּ | Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | Leviticus 14:41 | 1 |
| הִקְצ֥וֹת | Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct | Leviticus 14:43 | 1 |
| לְ/קַצּ֖וֹת | Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct | 2 Kings 10:32 | 1 |
| מְקַצֶּ֣ה | Verb, Piel, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 26:6 | 1 |
| קְצוֹת | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Habakkuk 2:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7096, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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