Hebrew verb · H6998
קָטַף
qataphkaw-taf'
to pluck
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qâṭaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6998is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6998
to strip off
The King James renders it: crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
qataph is rendered "to pluck". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 23:25When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Deuteronomy 23:25וְקָטַפְתָּ֥
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and you will pluck off1
- I will pluck off1
- it is plucked off1
- it plucked off1
- those pluck off1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֶקְטֹ֔ף1
- הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים1
- וְקָטַפְתָּ֥1
- יִקָּטֵ֑ף1
- קָטָ֑ף1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqrmpa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Deuteronomy
one use
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
- וְקָטַפְתָּ֥vekataftaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will pluck off
Job
two uses
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
- יִקָּטֵ֑ףyikatefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is plucked off
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
- הַקֹּטְפִ֣יםhakotefimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those pluck off
Ezekiel
two uses
He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.
- קָטָ֑ףkatafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it plucked off
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
- אֶקְטֹ֔ףʾektofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will pluck off
The letters
Gematria 189· 909 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.