קָצַץ qâtsats — to chop off (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as cut (asunder, in pieces, in sunder, off), × utmost.
a primitive root; to chop off (literally or figuratively).
qâtsats in each stem
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 5Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
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 ›