A primitive root; to strip off -- crop off, cut down (up), pluck.
Englishman's Concordance
1) to pluck off or out, cut off 1a) (Qal) to pluck off 1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 2010
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[קָטַף] verbpluck off (twigs, etc.), or out (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic pluck grapes; ᵑ7קְטַף, Syriac ; compare Assyrian ‡atâpu, apparently pluck off); —
QalPerfect3masculine singularקָטָ֑ףEzekiel 17:4he [i.e. eagle, in figure] plucked off twigs; 2 masculine singular וְקָטַפְתָּ֫Deuteronomy 23:26 (ears of grain, בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ); Imperfect1singular אֶקְטֹףEzekiel 17:22 (subject ׳י; accusative +מִןfrom); Participle masculine plural הַקֹּטְפִיםJob 30:4they who pluck out the mallow.
Niph`alImperfect3masculine singular יָקָּטֵבJob 8:12it is not plucked off.
I. קטר (√ of following; compare Assyrian ‡utru (with ת) smoke; Talmud, ᵑ7קִיטְרָא, קוּטְרָא (thick) smoke; Arabic smoke (said of fire); usually exhale odour (especially of roast meat); Assyrian ‡utrinnu, incense-offering; Sabean מקטרcenser CISiv. Nos.26, 1. 6; 30, 1.4. Ethiopic : incense; Egyptian k@atalqa Bondi74ff.kataruti WMMAs.u.Eur.97 = קְטֹרֶת, קְטָרוֺת; Late Hebrew [קָטַר] smoke (said of incense)).
Deuteronomy 23:25 HEB:בְּקָמַ֣ת רֵעֶ֔ךָ וְקָטַפְתָּ֥ מְלִילֹ֖ת בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ NAS: grain, then you may pluck the heads KJV: of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears INT: standing your neighbor's may pluck the heads your hand
Job 8:12 HEB:בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָל־ NAS: green [and] not cut down, Yet it withers KJV: Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth INT: green not cut before any
Job 30:4 HEB: הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי־ NAS:Who pluck mallow by the bushes, KJV:Who cut up mallows by the bushes, INT:pluck mallow by
Ezekiel 17:4 HEB:רֹ֥אשׁ יְנִֽיקוֹתָ֖יו קָטָ֑ף וַיְבִיאֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־ NAS:He plucked off the topmost KJV:He cropped off the top INT: the topmost young plucked and brought to
Ezekiel 17:22 HEB:יֹֽנְקוֹתָיו֙ רַ֣ךְ אֶקְטֹ֔ף וְשָׁתַ֣לְתִּי אָ֔נִי NAS: and set [it] out; I will pluck from the topmost KJV: and will set [it]; I will crop off from the top INT: young A tender will pluck will plant I