קָצַע qâtsaʻ — to strip off, i.e. (partially) scrape
Translated in the KJV as cause to scrape, corner.
a primitive root; to strip off, i.e. (partially) scrape; by implication, to segregate (as an angle).
qâtsaʻ in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 1
In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
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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