קָסַס qâçaç — to lop off

pronounced kaw-sas' · Strong's H7082 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Po'el

Translated in the KJV as cut off.

a primitive root; to lop off.

qâçaç in each stem

Po'el 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

יְקוֹסֵ֣ס Ezek 17:9 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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