קָצַב qâtsab — to clip, or (generally) chop
Translated in the KJV as cut down, shorn.
a primitive root; to clip, or (generally) chop.
qâtsab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Wayyiqtol 1Participle (passive) 1
וַיִּקְצָב 2Kgs 6:6 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular
And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
הַקְּצוּב֔וֹת Song 4:2 Participle (passive), feminine plural
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
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 ›