קָטַףqâṭaph/kaw-taf'/
HebrewH69985 occurrences (KJV)
to strip off
KJV renders it: crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
Where it appears
- Deut 23:25When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.
- Job 8:12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
- Job 30:4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
- Ezek 17:4He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
- Ezek 17:22“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.