To shear
קָצַבStrong’s H7094qatsav (qa-tsav)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qatsav is the Hebrew word usually translated “cut off” and “shorn”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to cut off, shear
How it's translated
- and he cut off 1
- shorn 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Song of Solomon 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קָצַב qatsav · to shear
(Qal) to cut off, shear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEAR, verb transitive
preterit tense sheared; participle passive sheared or shorn. The old preterit tense shore is entirely obsolete.
- To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
- To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece.
- To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish.
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.