בָּצַע bâtsaʻ — to break off, i.e. (usually) plunder
Translated in the KJV as covet, cut, finish, fulfill, gain, get, be given to, greedy, perform, be wounded.
a primitive root; to break off, i.e. (usually) plunder; figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop.
bâtsaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive construct 1Imperative 1
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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.
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.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›