To pluck
קָטַףStrong’s H6998qataph (qa-taph)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qataph is the Hebrew word usually translated “pluck off”, “it is plucked off” and “those pluck off”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.”
Meaning
- To pluck off or out, cut off(Qal) to pluck off · (Niphal) to be plucked off
How it's translated
- and you will pluck off 1
- it is plucked off 1
- those pluck off 1
- it plucked off 1
- i will pluck off 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- Job 30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- Ezekiel 17:4He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
- Ezekiel 17:22Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
Hebrew dictionary
קָטַף qataph · to pluck
1) to pluck off or out, cut off 1a) (Qal) to pluck off 1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pluck” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLUCK, verb transitive
- To pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off, out or from, with a twitch.“They pluck the fatherless from the breast” Job 24:9
- To strip by plucking; as, to pluck a fowl.“They that pass by do pluck her” Psalms 80:12“He shall pluck away his crop with his feathers” Leviticus 1:16
All definitions and other forms of “pluck”
PLUCK, noun
The heart, liver and lights of an animal.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.