Lexical Definition

‎כָּסַח‎ kâçach (kaw-sakh') to cut ^H:V
a primitive root

cut down (up).

• to cut off

1) to cut down, cut away, cut off (of plants)
1a) (Qal) cut away (pass participle)
1a1) of judgment (fig.)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎כָּסַח‎] verb cut off or away, a plant (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎כְּסַח‎, (for Hebrew ‎זָמַר‎); Arabic sweep off, away, destroy, do away with; compare Sabean ‎כסח‎ overpower, conquer, Hom^{ZMG 1892, 532}) — only Qal Passive participle, feminine singular ‎כְּסוּחָה‎ Ps 80:17*, cut away, of Israel under figure of vine; masculine plural ‎קוֺצִים כְּסוּחִים‎ Isa 33:12 thorns cut away, figurative of peoples destroyed by divine judgment.

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