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title: קְצַץ — cut off · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: קְצַץ (lemma:קְצַץ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: cut off. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְצַץ

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«קְצַץ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **cut off** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:קְצַץ · **BDB:** קַצִּ֫צוּ

### Glosses

cut.off! (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cut off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e6_5b7_5e5/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** v. p. 1126.

### Jastrow 1903

קְצַץ: cut to stipulate to cut; to mutilate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e6_5b7_5e5/#m2)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** to cut \&c. Targ. Jud. VI, 30. Targ. O. Deut. XIX, 5; a. fr.—Part. pass. קָצִיץ; f. קְצִיצָא; pl. קְצִיצִין; קְצִיצָן. Targ. Jud. VI, 28. Targ. I Sam. V, 4; a. e.—Snh. 58ᵇ רב הונא קץ ידא Rab Huna ordered the hand (of one in the habit of striking his neighbors) to be cut off; Nidd. 13ᵇ. B. Kam. 91ᵇ דקץ תאינתא וכ׳ he cut fig-trees down before their time; a. fr. to stipulate. B. Mets. 67ᵃ לא קץ ליה he had not stipulated a fixed amount of interest; a. e. (קָצֵיץ) to cut; to mutilate. Targ. Ps. CVII, 16. Targ. Lam. II, 3 (ed. Lag. קיצץ, ed. Vien. קצף, corr. acc.). Targ. O. Deut. VII, 5 תְּקָצְצוּן ed. Berl. (oth. ed. תְּקוֹצְצוּן; Y. תְּקַצְּצוּן); a. e.—B. Kam. l. c. דיקלא … לִמְקַצְּצָה it is forbidden to fell a date-tree as long as it bears a Kab of dates. Gen. R. s. 6 (of the agony of death) כמא נפשיה … מְקַצְּצָא ארזין ומקצצא וכ׳ how the soul of this man’s (my) brother is cutting cedars and cutting trees, and you sit laughing and know it not; a. e.—\[Lev. R. s. 5 שעריה מקצץ, v. קְוַץ.\]

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְצַץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b0_5e6_5b7_5e5/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.11/)

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קָרֵ֨א בְחַ֜יִל וְכֵ֣ן אָמַ֗ר גֹּ֤דּוּ אִֽילָנָא֙ וְקַצִּ֣צוּ עַנְפ֔וֹהִי אַתַּ֥רוּ עָפְיֵ֖הּ וּבַדַּ֣רוּ אִנְבֵּ֑הּ תְּנֻ֤ד חֵֽיוְתָא֙ מִן־תַּחְתּ֔וֹהִי וְצִפְּרַיָּ֖א מִן־עַנְפֽוֹהִי׃

*Word for word:* \[he.was\].proclaiming with power and as.follows \[he.was\].saying cut.down! the tree and cut.off! branches its strip.off! foliage its and scatter! fruit its let.it.flee the animal\[s\] from under it and the birds from branches its

*JPS 1917:* He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

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