Strong’s
H6998Verb5 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Deuteronomy 23:25וְקָטַפְתָּ
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
- Job 8:12יִקָּטֵף
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.
- Ezekiel 17:4קָטָף
He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[קָטַף] vb. pluck off (twigs, etc.), or out
Qal he [i.e. eagle, in fig.] plucked off twigs
Niph. it is not plucked off.
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.