STRONGS NUMBER H6998


Word Summary
qataph: to pluck off or out
Original Word: קָטַף
Transliteration: 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 singularקָטָ֑ףEzekiel 17:4 he [i.e. eagle, in figure] plucked off twigs; 2 masculine singular וְקָטַפְתָּ֫‎ Deuteronomy 23:26 (ears of grain, בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ‎); Imperfect1singular אֶקְטֹף17:22 (subject ׳י‎; accusative +מִןfrom); Participle masculine plural הַקֹּטְפִיםJob 30:4 they who pluck out the mallow.

Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular יָקָּטֵבJob 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 מקטרcenser 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)).