קָצַע
to scrape
also: scrape off, cut off fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
See every Hiphil verb in the Hebrew Bible →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H7106 appears in the Hophal 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.
Ezekiel 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew verb קצע centers on the idea of “to scrape.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Leviticus (50%), then Ezekiel. First canonically at Leviticus 14:41, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses — beyond “to scrape” it also covers “scrape off” and “cut off”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7106 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Be scraped 1×, Corners 1×
- American Standard Version†: Be scraped 1×, Corners 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Corner areas 1×, Scraped 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: All four of the courtyards 1×, He shall have 1×, Scraped 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7106 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7106 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7106 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7106 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
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 0 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.
קצע I scrape, scrape off
קצע II cornered, set in corners
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
I. קָצַע vb. scrape, scrape off;— Hiph. Lv 14:41.
קָצַע vb. denom. Hoph. cornered, set in corners
— 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.
קָצַע
- 1. to scrape. Neg. XII, 6 שניהן … קוֹצְעִין both neighbors must bear the expense for tearing out (the leprous stone) and for scraping (the wall); Sifra M’tsorʿa, Neg., Par. 6, ch. IV; a. e.
- 2. to cut, dry, and pack figs (v. קְצִיעָה). Taan. 28ᵃ קוֹצְעֵי קציעית those pretending to be engaged in packing figs; Tosef. ib. IV (III), 7 (Var. קוֹצְאֵי); Y. ib. IV, 68ᵇ bot.
- 3. to trim, v. infra.
- to cut the ends, trim. Kel. XXVII, 4 המְקַצֵּע מכולם וכ׳ if in trimming any of them he cuts off a piece one handbreadth square. Zeb. 94ᵃ עוצבא … לקַצְּעָהּ … עד שיְקַצְּעֶנָּה a fur intended to be trimmed (v. עיּצְבָּא) remains unsusceptible of uncleanness until it has been trimmed; Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. IV, 10. B. Kam. 66ᵇ כגון שקִיצְּעָן (Ar. שקצען) when he trimmed the stolen furs. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. XI, 8 אם היה גדול וקִיצְּעוֹ (not וקיצעו) if the cloth was large and he shortened it by trimming; ib. 9. Ib. 2 עד שיְקַצֵּעַ (or שיִקְצַע) until he cuts off (the defective portion). Ḥull. 123ᵇ במקצע ובא לו וכ׳ when he trimmed (the skin) going all around; a. e.
קְצַע
- Pa. קַצֵּעַ same, to trim, cut. Zeb. 94ᵃ דחשיב עלה לקַצְּעָהּ when he had planned to trim it. Ib. עד דמְקַצַּע לה, v. preced.
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 2 distinct written forms H7106 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יַקְצִ֥עַ | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Leviticus 14:41 | 1 |
| מְׄהֻׄקְׄצָׄעֽׄוֹׄתׄ | Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 46:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7106, 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
- מקצוע maqtsôwaʻ H4740 corner
- מקצעה maqtsuʻâh H4741 scraper
- מקצעה mᵉqutsʻâh H4742 corner buttress
- קציעה qᵉtsîyʻâh H7102 cassia
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 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
