Lexical Definition

‎כִּרְסֵם‎ kirçêm (kir-same') to tear off ^H:V
from ‎כָּסַם‎

waste.

• to lay waste

1) (Piel) to tear apart, ravage, tear off

See Greek: λυμαίνομαι

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎כִּרְסֵם‎] verb quadriliteral = Pi`el, tear off (compare ‎קִרְסֵם‎ Late Hebrew cut or eat away, Deut 28:38 ‎ᵑ7‎^J for ‎חָסַל‎; on form see Ges^{«GKC:56»§ 56}); — only Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix: — ‎יְכַרְסְמֶנָּה חֲזִיר מִיָּ֫עַר‎ Ps 80:14* teareth it off (that is, the vine, figurative of Israel).

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