בָּצַעbâtsaʻ
cut off, break off, gain by violence
Pronunciation: baw-tsah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1214
Meanings
Qal: cut off, break off (Job 27:8; Joel 2:8; Amos 9:1)
Pi`el: cut off, (dis)sever, accomplish, (i.e. from life), = finish, complete, (= carry out, fulfil) (Lamentations 2:17; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 38:12)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 16 times in the Bible.
- Job 6:9 I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
- Job 27:8 For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?
- Psalms 10:3 For they brag about their evil desires; they praise the greedy and curse the Lord.
- Proverbs 1:19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.
- Proverbs 15:27 Greed brings grief to the whole family, but those who hate bribes will live.
- Isaiah 10:12 After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him—for he is proud and arrogant.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).