קָצָה
qa.tsah
to cut off
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word qa.tsah (H7096) communicates a physical action of cutting or severing something. Its short definition, "to cut off," explicitly conveys this meaning. The word's semantic domain is classified as Physical Action, further emphasizing its focus on tangible, hands-on actions. QA.tsah is used 5 times in the Bible, indicating its moderate frequency in the text. Given its definition and domain, we can infer that qa.tsah often conveys a sense of separation or disconnection, as in the physical act of severing a bond or relationship. This understanding is supported by the word's meaning, which emphasizes a clear cutoff or division. Without further context or additional data, we cannot speculate on the specific circumstances of usage but can conclude that qa.tsah consistently represents a physical act of cutting or severing.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
5 total occurrences across the text
One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
Habakkuk 2:10You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Leviticus 14:41He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:43“If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered,
2 Kings 10:32In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;