katsa · scrape off, cut off

What it means

katsa (קָצָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scrape off, cut off”.

Cut off, scrape off; also put an end to something.

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 take a piece off something; to make it smaller and smaller.
2. Scratch away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• He cuts off ×1
• cut off parts ×1
• making an end of ×1
• scraping ×1
• they scrape off ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Proverbs×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Leviticus 14:41

  And the house he shall have scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the clay that they scrape off to outside the city, to an unclean place.

• Leviticus 14:43

  And if the mark returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, and after scraping the house and after it has been plastered,

• 2 Kings 10:32

  In those days YHWH began to cut off parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the territory of Israel:

• Proverbs 26:6

  He cuts off his own feet, he drinks violence, who sends words by the hand of a senseless man.

• Habakkuk 2:10

  You have counseled shame for your house, making an end of many peoples, and you are sinning against your soul.