batsa · cut off, finish

What it means

batsa (בָּצַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut off, finish”.

To cut, to break off; hence, to finish something or put an end to it. It is also used for gain torn from others by violence.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To end something, like the thread of life.
2. To carry something through to the end, completing what was begun or said.
3. To make gain by abuse, rob.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• greedy ×5
• cut me off ×2
• break off ×1
• get ×1
• has finished ×1
• he has fulfilled ×1
• he is cut off ×1
• one who gains ×1
• shatter them ×1
• will finish it ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Joel×1
• Amos×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Job 6:9

  that Eloah would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off.

• Job 27:8

  For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when Eloah draws out his life?

• Psalms 10:3

  For the wicked boasts of the desire of his soul, and the greedy one curses, spurns YHWH.

• Proverbs 1:19

  So are the paths of everyone greedy for unjust gain: it takes away the soul of its owners.

• Proverbs 15:27

  Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his household, but whoever hates gifts will live.

• Isaiah 10:12

  And it will happen when Adonai has finished all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, that I will punish the fruit of the greatness of heart of the king of Assyria and the beauty of the height of his eyes.

• Isaiah 38:12

  My dwelling has been pulled up and removed from me like a tent of a shepherd; I have rolled up like the weaver my life; from the threads of the loom he will cut me off; from day to night you will make an end of me.

• Jeremiah 6:13

  For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for gain; and from prophet even to priest, everyone practices falsehood.

• Jeremiah 8:10

  Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to new possessors; for from the least even to the greatest, everyone is greedy for gain; from prophet even to priest, everyone practices falsehood.

• Lamentations 2:17

  YHWH has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his saying that he commanded from the days of old; he has torn down and has not pitied; and he has made the enemy rejoice over you; he has raised the horn of your adversaries.

• Ezekiel 22:12

  Bribes they have taken in you to shed blood; interest and profit you have taken, and you have despoiled your neighbors with exploitation, and me you have forgotten, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 22:27

  Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get gain.

• Joel 2:8

  And one does not push his brother; each man marches on his highway; and through the weapons they fall, but they do not break off.

• Amos 9:1

  I saw Adonai standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the capital, so that the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the head of all of them; and the last of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them who flees will get away, and not one of them who escapes will be delivered.

• Habakkuk 2:9

  Woe to the one who gains evil gain for his house, to set on high his nest, to be delivered from the hand of evil!

• Zechariah 4:9

  “The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it; and you will know that YHWH Tsevaot has sent me to you.