Lexical Definition

‎קָצָה‎ qâtsâh (kaw-tsaw') to cut off ^H:V
a primitive root

cut off, cut short, scrape (off).

• to cut off
• (figuratively) to destroy
• (partially) to scrape off

1) to cut off
1a) (Qal) to cut off
1b) (Piel) to cut off
1c) (Hiphil) to scrape, scrape off

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎קָצָה‎] verb cut off (Late Hebrew id., separate, Phoenician ‎קצה‎ cut off, exterminate; Aramaic ‎קְצָא‎, break off (e.g. bread); Arabic be remote, remote extremity); —

Qal Infinitive ‎קְצוֺת עַמִּים‎ Hab 2:10 cutting off many peoples; Vrss ‎קַצּוֺת‎ (√ ‎קצץ‎); Gr Now conjecture ‎הֲצִיקוֺתָ‎. Pi`el Infinitive construct ‎לִקַצּוֺת בְּ‎ 2Kgs 10:32 to cut off in Israel; read probably ‎לִקְצוֺף‎ to be angry with, ᵑ7 Hi Che<sup>Crit. n. Isa 14:6 (in Commentaries)</sup> Kmp<sup>Kau</sup> Kit Benz, ᵑ9; Gr ‎לָקוּץ‎; Participle ‎מְקַצֶּח רַגְלַיִם‎ Prov 26:6 (figurative). Hiph`il Perfect 3 plural ‎הִקְצוּ‎ Lev 14:41, accusative dust; Infinitive construct ‎הִקְצוֺת‎ vLev 14:43, accusative house, in both apparently = ‎קָצַע‎ scrape, scrape off (q. v., vLev 14:41 a), and so probably read, namely ‎הִקְצְעוּ‎, ‎הַקְצִיעַ‎, RS^{JPhil. xvi (1888), 72} Dr-Wh Di-Ry Baen.

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