Lexical Summary kasach: to cut off or away Original Word: כָּסַחTransliteration: kasach Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-sakh') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut off or away Meaning: to cut off or away Strong's Concordance cut down up A primitive root; to cut off -- cut down (up). Brown-Driver-Briggs H3683. kasach [כָּסַח] verb cut off or away, a plant (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּסַח, (for Hebrew זָמַר); Arabic sweep off, away, destroy, do away with; compare Sabean כסח overpower, conquer, HomZMG 1892, 532) — only Qal Passive participle, feminine singular כְּסוּחָה Psalm 80:17, cut away, of Israel under figure of vine; masculine plural כְּסוּחִים קוֺצִים Isaiah 33:12 thorns cut away, figurative of peoples destroyed by divine judgment. |