# H6998 קָטַף

קָטַף (qâṭaph), Strong’s H6998: to strip off KJV: crop off, cut down (up), pluck.. Occurs 5 times.

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*qâṭaph* — to strip off

KJV: crop off, cut down (up), pluck.

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [קָטַף] vb. pluck off (twigs, etc.), or out
- Qal he [i.e. eagle, in fig.] plucked off twigs
- Niph. it is not plucked off.

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 23:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/23?v=26) — When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a…
- [Ezekiel 17:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/17?v=4) — He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of…
- [Ezekiel 17:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/17?v=22) — “The Lord GOD says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the…
- [Job 8:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/8?v=12) — While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
- [Job 30:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/30?v=4) — They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.