Strong H6998קָטַף
to pluck
- Transliteration
- qâţaph
- Pronunciation
- kaw-taf'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to strip off: - crop {off} cut down ({up}) pluck.
Detailed definition
1) to pluck off or out, cut off
1a) (Qal) to pluck off
1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off
1a) (Qal) to pluck off
1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off
In the Bible
Strong H6998 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- crop2
- cut2
- pluck1
First verses
- Deuteronomy 23:25When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.
- Job 8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- Job 30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- Ezekiel 17:4He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
- Ezekiel 17:22Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: