קָצַץ
qâtsats · kaw-tsats'
to chop off (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to chop off (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cut (asunder, in pieces, in sunder, off), [idiom] utmost.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to pursue the straight path › to pursue the straight path
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to pursue the straight path that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָצַץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- cut off3 · 20%
- and cut in pieces2 · 13%
- and all that are in the utmost2 · 13%
- and cut1 · 7%
- then thou shalt cut off1 · 7%
- him, and cut off1 · 7%
- them, and cut off1 · 7%
- and cutteth1 · 7%
- in sunder1 · 7%
- he hath cut asunder1 · 7%
- them that are in the utmost1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.