katsats · cut off

What it means

katsats (קָצַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut off”.

Cut in pieces, cut off.

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 split something into pieces with a cutting tool.
2. Those who clip the hair at their temples, a people of the wilderness.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cut off ×6
• cut in pieces ×1
• cuts in two ×1
• he cut them ×1
• he cut up ×1
• he has cut ×1
• those clipped ×1
• who are clipped ×1
• who are shaved ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×2
• Jeremiah×3

• Exodus 39:3

  And they hammered out the sheets of gold, and he cut them into threads to work them into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the fine linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Deuteronomy 25:12

  then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

• Judges 1:6

  Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued him, seized him, and cut off the thumbs of his hands and of his feet.

• Judges 1:7

  Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings, with the thumbs of their hands and of their feet cut off, used to gather scraps under my table. As I have done, so Elohim has repaid me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• 2 Samuel 4:12

  David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them beside the pool in Hebron. But the head of Ish-bosheth they took and buried in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

• 2 Kings 16:17

  King Ahaz cut off the panels of the stands, and removed from them the basin; and the Sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones.

• 2 Kings 18:16

  At that time Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of YHWH and the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave them to the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 24:13

  He brought out from there all the treasures of the house of YHWH and the treasures of the house of the king, and he cut up all the utensils of gold that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of YHWH, as YHWH had spoken.

• 2 Chronicles 28:24

  Ahaz gathered the utensils of the house of Elohim and cut in pieces the utensils of the house of Elohim, and shut the doors of the house of YHWH, and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

• Psalms 46:9

  He brings an end to wars to the edge of the earth; the bow he breaks and cuts in two the spear; the wagons he burns in the fire.

• Psalms 129:4

  YHWH is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all who are clipped at the temples, who live in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Jeremiah 25:23

  and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who are shaved at the temples;

• Jeremiah 49:32

  And their camels will become plunder, and the multitude of their livestock spoil; and I will scatter them to every wind, those clipped at the temples; and from all its sides I will bring their calamity, declares YHWH.