Strong’s H6998 · Hebrew
קָטַף
qâṭaph · kaw-taf'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to strip off
In the King James Version crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 23:25When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.
- Job 8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- Job 30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- Ezekiel 17:4He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
- Ezekiel 17:22Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.