קָצָה qâtsâh — to cut off
Translated in the KJV as cut off, cut short, scrape.
a primitive root; to cut off; (figuratively) to destroy; (partially) to scrape off.
qâtsâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive construct 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:
And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 1Participle (active) 1
In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 1
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
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 ›