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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

  1. 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.
  2. Job 8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
  3. Job 30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

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