Quick Definition
to pluck
Strong's Definition
to strip off
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
TWOT Reference: 2010
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) to pluck off or out, cut off
1a) (Qal) to pluck off
1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קָטַף (qa.taph) — to pluck. 1) to pluck off or out, cut off 1a) (Qal) to pluck off 1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[קָטַף] vb. pluck off (twigs, etc.), or out Qal he [i.e. eagle, in fig.] plucked off twigs
Niph. it is not plucked off.
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