קָצַץ
to cut off
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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.
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel. Here: ‘pl.’
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 3 times (21%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct 3 times (21%)
- Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 3 times (21%)
- Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 times (14%)
- Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Pual, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7112 appears — 14 distinct verses across 8 books. 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.
Exodus 1 verse
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 1:6 וַֽ/יְקַצְּצ֔וּ conj + Piel wimpf 3mp But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
- Judges 1:7 מְקֻצָּצִ֗ים Pual ptcp.pass mp Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
2 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 16:17 וַ/יְקַצֵּץ֩ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
- 2 Kings 18:16 קִצַּ֨ץ Piel pf 3ms At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 24:13 וַ/יְקַצֵּ֞ץ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 9:26 קְצוּצֵ֣י Qal ptcp.pass mp cs Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
- Jeremiah 25:23 קְצוּצֵ֥י Qal ptcp.pass mp cs Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners [of their hair] cut off;
- Jeremiah 49:32 קְצוּצֵ֣י Qal ptcp.pass mp cs Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
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 קצץ centers on the idea of “to cut off.” Debuting at Exodus 39:3, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 14 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Read the stem: it spans 3 stems, including Qal and Piel. Sharing its root, it stands alongside קץ, קצץ and מקץ. 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 H7112 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 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 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 9 verses · 64%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 21%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 14%
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 off 5×, All that are in the utmost 2×, Cut in pieces 2×
- American Standard Version: Cut off 3×, Cut in pieces 2×, Hair cut off 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cut off 3×, Cut 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cut off 3×, They cut off 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7112 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7112 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7112 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7112 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel).
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
- Pf. 2 ms. consec. וְקַצֹּתָה Dt 25:12 (acc. כַּפָּהּ); Pt. pass. pl. cstr. קְצוּצֵי פֵאָה Je 9:25; 25:23; 49:32 (v. פֵּאָה 1). e.g. Deuteronomy 25:12
Piel
- Pf. 3 ms. קִצֵּץ ψ 129:4, וְק׳ consec. Ex 39:3 ψ 46:10, קִצַּץ 2 K 18:16; Impf. וַיְקַצֵּץ 16:17 +, etc.;—cut or hew off, thumbs, toes, Ju 1:6, hands and feet 2 S 4:12; cut in two, spear (חֲנִית) ψ 46:10, threads Ex 39:3 (P), cords ψ 129:4 (fig.); cut in pieces, vessels (of gold) 2 K 24:13 2 Ch 28:24; bases (הַמְּכֹנוֹת) 2 K 16:17 (so Kit Benz, transposing הַמִּסְגְּרוֹת), doors 2 K 18:16 (both, for the sake of metal sheathing). e.g. Psalms 129:4
Pual
- Pt. pl. מְקֻצָּצִים Ju 1:7 hewn off (as v 6 supr.). e.g. Judges 1:7
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., also קֵץ end; Assyrian ḳaṣâṣu, hew off, cut off, kiṣṣatu, boundry-stone, Belser BAS ii. 120, 139, cf. Hilpr Assyriaca i. 12; Arabic قَصَّ cut, clip, cut off; Aramaic קְצַץ, ܩܨܶܨ cut off, קִיצָּא, ܩܶܨܳܐ end);—
— 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.
קָצַץ
- (b. h.)
- 1. to cut, fell. Shebi. IV, 10 מותר לקוֹצְצוֹ it is permitted to cut the tree down (in the Sabbatical year). Ib. כמה … ולא יְקוֹצֶּנּוּ (Y. ed. יקצונו, corr. acc.; Bab. ed. יְקוֹצְצוֹ; Ms. M. יִקְצְצֶנּוּ) how much must an olive tree bear so that one dare not cut it down (because it is an act of wilful destruction, Deut. XX, 19–20); B. Kam. 91ᵇ יקצצנו Ms. F. a. R. (later ed. יִקְצְצוֹ; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 10). Ib. נטיעותי קָצַצְתָּ thou hast cut down my young trees; אתה אמרת לי לקוֹצְצָן (not לקוצצו, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 7) thou hast told me to cut them. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵇ bot. לָקוֹץ … יָקוֹץ, v. נָתַק. Ib. הקוצץ בקורות he that cuts trunks for beams. Lev. R. s. 23, v. infra.—Sifré Deut. 212 (expl. ועשתה, Deut. XXI, 12) תָּקוֹץ let her cut (her nails). Macc. 22ᵃ הקוצץ את בהרתו he that cuts off a white spot (suspicious of leprosy, v. קְצִיצָה); Neg. VII, 5 קְצָצָהּ מתכוין if he cut it intentionally. Tosef. Sabb. XI (XII), 3; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 85 (ref. to Dan. V, 1 a. VI, 1) והיכן הוא … קוצץ לקוצץ where is Evil Merodach?… (He is left out) in order to join a wicked man to a wicked man, a destroyer to a destroyer. Y. Yeb. II, 4ᵃ top קוצץ בן קוצץ a destroyer son of a destroyer (wicked by heredity); Pesik. S’liḥ. p. 167ᵇ אין בישראל קו׳ בן קו׳ there is no hereditary wickedness in Israel. Ex. R. s. 1 וקוץ … שק׳ עצת וכ׳ Koz (I Chr. IV, 8) is Caleb, for he destroyed the counsel of the spies; a. fr.—2) (cmp. קָצַב, גָּזַר) to stipulate, agree upon. Shebu. 45ᵇ אפי׳ ק׳ נמי let it be the same even if a stipulation has been made (and the amount is in litigation). Ib. אומן … קָצַצְתָּ … לא קָצַצְתִּי וכ׳ if the mechanic says, thou hast stipulated to pay me two (Zuz), and he (the employer) says, I have stipulated one only; a. e.—Part. pass. קָצוּץ; f. קְצוּצָה. B. Mets. 61ᵇ רבית ק׳ stipulated, direct usury, opp. אבק רבית, v. אָבָק. Ib. 62ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 20:19
- 1. to be cut. Neg. l. c. מי … ונִקְצָצָה if one had a white spot, and it was cut off (accidentally). Nidd. II, 1 תִּקָּצֵץ let the hand be cut off. B. Kam. 91ᵇ, v. קְצִיצָה; a. fr.
- 2. to be cut off, excluded. Y. Kidd. I, 60ᶜ, a. e., v. קְצָצָה.
- 3. to be stipulated, definitely assigned. Lev. R. s. 30, beg. מראש השנה נִקְצָצִין וכ׳ from the beginning of the year the means of support are definitely assigned to men, except &c., v. קָצַב.
- 1. to scrape, cut off; to fell. Pes. 56ᵃ ק׳ דלתות וכ׳ (II Kings XVIII, 16) he took the gold off the Temple doors. Y. Ber. VIII, 12ᵃ bot. אפי׳ מְקַצֵּץ וכ׳ even when cutting lupines. Ib. II, 5ᶜ top היה מקצץ כל וכ׳ he cut down all he had planted. Pesik. R. s. 31 ומְקַצְּצִים, v. רָצַץ. Cant. R. to II, 2 לקַצְּצוֹ; Lev. R. s. 23 לָקוֹצּוֹ, v. קַצָּץ.—Esp. ק׳ בנט עות [to cut down the shoots in the garden of religion,] to be hostile to religion, corrupt the youths; to be a heretic. Ḥag. 14ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 77ᵇ top, v. נְטִיעָה. Cant. R. to I, 4 כיצד ק׳ בנ׳ in what way did he manifest his hostility to religion? Gen. R. s. 19 לא תעשה … וִיקַצֵּץ וכ׳ make not the fence (around the religious laws) more important than the essentials, lest it fall down and ruin the shoots. e.g. 2 Kings 18:16
- 2. to stipulate. Shebi. IV, 1 ואין … שיְקַצֵּץ להם מזונות (R. S. שיִקְצוֹץ) it is unnecessary to say, that he must not stipulate to give them their food (for their work).
- to cut off, deduct. Sifré Num. 8 ומֵקֵיץ מכתובתה he may deduct (his outlay for her) from her jointure.
קְצַץ
- 1. to cut &c. Targ. Jud. VI, 30. Targ. O. Deut. XIX, 5; a. fr.—Part. pass. קָצִיץ; f. קְצִיצָא; pl. קְצִיצִין; קְצִיצָן. Targ. Jud. VI, 28. Targ. I Sam. V, 4; a. e.—Snh. 58ᵇ רב הונא קץ ידא Rab Huna ordered the hand (of one in the habit of striking his neighbors) to be cut off; Nidd. 13ᵇ. B. Kam. 91ᵇ דקץ תאינתא וכ׳ he cut fig-trees down before their time; a. fr.
- 2. to stipulate. B. Mets. 67ᵃ לא קץ ליה he had not stipulated a fixed amount of interest; a. e.
- (קָצֵיץ) to cut; to mutilate. Targ. Ps. CVII, 16. Targ. Lam. II, 3 (ed. Lag. קיצץ, ed. Vien. קצף, corr. acc.). Targ. O. Deut. VII, 5 תְּקָצְצוּן ed. Berl. (oth. ed. תְּקוֹצְצוּן; Y. תְּקַצְּצוּן); a. e.—B. Kam. l. c. דיקלא … לִמְקַצְּצָה it is forbidden to fell a date-tree as long as it bears a Kab of dates. Gen. R. s. 6 (of the agony of death) כמא נפשיה … מְקַצְּצָא ארזין ומקצצא וכ׳ how the soul of this man’s (my) brother is cutting cedars and cutting trees, and you sit laughing and know it not; a. e.—[Lev. R. s. 5 שעריה מקצץ, v. קְוַץ.]
קַצָּץ
- (preced.) wood-cutter (cmp. קָצוֹעַ).—Pl. קַצָּצִים. Cant. R. to II, 2 הביא ק׳ לְקַצְּצוֹ he brought on cutters to raze the plantation; Lev. R. s. 23.
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 12 distinct written forms H7112 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7112, 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
Proper names from this root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 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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