Midvash

קָטַףqâṭaph

pluck off, or out, (twigs, etc.)

Pronunciation: kaw-taf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6998

Meanings

Qal: plucked off, pluck out (Ezekiel 17:4; Deuteronomy 23:26; Ezekiel 17:22)

Niph`al: plucked off (Job 8:12)

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 23:25 And when you enter your neighbor’s field of grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not harvest it with a sickle.
  • Job 8:12 While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass.
  • Job 30:4 They pluck wild greens from among the bushes and eat from the roots of broom trees.
  • Ezekiel 17:4 and plucked off its highest branch. He carried it away to a city filled with merchants. He planted it in a city of traders.
  • Ezekiel 17:22 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take a branch from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel’s highest mountain.

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).