קָטַף
kataf · pluck
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6998 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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kataf (קָטַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pluck”.
Pick heads of grain or shoots by hand.
How to say it
ka·taf
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
- Pull off ears of grain or shoots by hand.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- I will pluck off ×1
- They pluck ×1
- cut down ×1
- it plucked off ×1
- you may pluck ×1
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 23:25
When you go into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck ears with your hand, but a sickle you shall not swing over the standing grain of your neighbor.
- Job 8:12
While it is still in its greenness, not cut down, it dries up before any grass.
- Job 30:4
They pluck salt herb by the brush, and the root of the broom is their bread.
- Ezekiel 17:4
The tip of its shoots it plucked off and brought it to a land of Canaan; in a city of merchants it set it.
- Ezekiel 17:22
Thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘And I myself will take from the top of the lofty cedar and set it; from the tip of its shoots a tender one I will pluck off, and I myself will plant it on a mountain high and steep.