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title: כָּסַח — cut off · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּסַח (3683), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: cut off. BDB 1906: vb. cut off away. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּסַח

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«כָּסַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cut off** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3683 · **BDB:** כָּסַח

### Glosses

\[it.is\].cut.down (1); cut.down (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cut off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3683/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. cut off away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3683/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut off or away, a plant (NH id.; Aramaic כְּסַח, ܟܣܰܚ (for Heb. זָמַר); Arabic كَسَحَ sweep off, away, destroy, do away with; cf. Sab. כסח overpower, conquer, HomZMG 1892, 532)—only Pt. pass., fs. כְּסוּחָה ψ 80:17, cut away, of Isr. under fig. of vine; mpl. קוֹצִים כְּסוּחים Is 33:12 thorns cut away, fig. of peoples destroyed by divine judgment.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּסַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3683/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 80:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.17/)

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שְׂרֻפָ֣ה בָאֵ֣שׁ כְּסוּחָ֑ה מִגַּעֲרַ֖ת פָּנֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[it.is\].burned with (the) fire \[it.is\].cut.down from the.rebuke your.face your they.will.perish

*JPS 1917:* It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.

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[Isaiah 33:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/)

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וְהָי֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת שִׂ֑יד קוֹצִ֥ים כְּסוּחִ֖ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יִצַּֽתּוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.will.be peoples burnings of.lime thorns cut.down with (the) fire they.will.be.kindled

*JPS 1917:* And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

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