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title: קָסַס — strip off · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָסַס (7082), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: strip off. BDB 1906: vb. Pōʿ. strip off. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָסַס

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«קָסַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **strip 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:** 7082 · **BDB:** קָסַס

### Glosses

will.it.strip.off? (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

strip off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7082/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. Pōʿ. strip off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7082/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pōʿ. strip off (so context requires; verb otherwise unknown);—Impf. 3 ms. וְאֶת־פִּרְיָהּ יְקוֹסֵס Ez 17:9 and its fruit shall he not strip off?

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 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, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָסַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7082/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.9/)

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אֱמֹ֗ר כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהֹוִ֖ה תִּצְלָ֑ח הֲלוֹא֩ אֶת־שָׁרָשֶׁ֨יהָ יְנַתֵּ֜ק וְאֶת־פִּרְיָ֣הּ ׀ יְקוֹסֵ֣ס וְיָבֵ֗שׁ כָּל־טַרְפֵּ֤י צִמְחָהּ֙ תִּיבָ֔שׁ וְלֹֽא־בִזְרֹ֤עַ גְּדוֹלָה֙ וּבְעַם־רָ֔ב לְמַשְׂא֥וֹת אוֹתָ֖הּ מִשָּׁרָשֶֽׁיהָ׃

*Word for word:* say thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh will.it.prosper? ? not (et) roots its will.it.pull.up and (et) fruit its will.it.strip.off? and it.will.wither all the.fresh.\[things\] its.growth her it.will.wither and not by an.arm great and by a.people numerous to lift.up it from roots its

*JPS 1917:* Say thou: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither, yea, wither in all its sprouting leaves? neither shall great power or much people be at hand when it is plucked up by the roots thereof.

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