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STRONGS NUMBER H6998
Transliteration: qataph
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-taf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to pluck off or out
Meaning: to pluck off or out
Word Summary
qataph: to pluck off or out
Original Word: קָטַףTransliteration: qataph
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-taf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to pluck off or out
Meaning: to pluck off or out
Strong's Concordance
crop off, cut down up, pluck A primitive root; to strip off -- crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6998. qataph
[קָטַף] verb pluck off (twigs, etc.), or out (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic pluck grapes; קְטַף ᵑ7, Syriac ; compare Assyrian ‡atâpu, apparently pluck off); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singularקָטָ֑ף Ezekiel 17:4 he [i.e. eagle, in figure] plucked off twigs; 2 masculine singular וְקָטַפְתָּ֫ Deuteronomy 23:26 (ears of grain, בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ); Imperfect1singular אֶקְטֹף 17:22 (subject ׳י; accusative +מִן from); Participle masculine plural הַקֹּטְפִים Job 30:4 they who pluck out the mallow.
Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular יָקָּטֵב Job 8:12 it is not plucked off.
I. קטר (√ of following; compare Assyrian ‡utru (with ת) smoke; Talmud, קוּטְרָא קִיטְרָא, ᵑ7 (thick) smoke; Arabic smoke (said of fire); usually exhale odour (especially of roast meat); Assyrian ‡utrinnu, incense-offering; Sabean מקטר censer CISiv. Nos.26, 1. 6; 30, 1.4. Ethiopic : incense; Egyptian k:atalqa Bondi74ff. kataruti WMMAs.u.Eur.97 = קְטָרוֺת קְטֹרֶת,; Late Hebrew [קָטַר] smoke (said of incense)).