Strong H12143 sensesבָּצַע

to cut off: to gain · to cut off · to cut off: to end

Transliteration
bâtsa‛
Pronunciation
baw-tsah'

The 3 senses of Strong H1214

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H1214 appears in 16 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to cut off: to gainH1214I9 verses · 6 books
  2. to cut offH1214G: to cut off4 verses · Job, Isaiah, Amos
  3. to cut off: to endH1214H3 verses · Isaiah, Joel, Zechariah

General definition

A primitive root to break {off} that {is} (usually) plunder; figuratively to {finish} or (intransitively) stop: - (be) covet ({-ous}) cut ({off}) {finish} {fulfill} gain ({greedily}) {get} be given to {[covetousness]} {greedy} {perform} be wounded.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • cut3
  • gain2
  • give2
  • greedy2
  • coveteth1
  • covetous1
  • finish1
  • fulfil1
  • get1
  • perform1
  • wound1

First verses

  1. Job 6:9
    Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  2. Job 27:8
    For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
  3. Psalms 10:3
    For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
  4. Proverbs 1:19
    So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
  5. Proverbs 15:27
    He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
  6. Isaiah 10:12
    Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
  7. Isaiah 38:12
    Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
  8. Jeremiah 6:13
    For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
  9. Jeremiah 8:10
    Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
  10. Lamentations 2:17
    The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
  11. Ezekiel 22:12
    In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
  12. Ezekiel 22:27
    Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  13. Joel 2:8
    Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
  14. Amos 9:1
    I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
  15. Habakkuk 2:9
    Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
  16. Zechariah 4:9
    The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.