Strong's #1214: batsa` (pronounced baw-tsah')

a primitive root to break off, i.e. (usually) plunder; figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop:--(be) covet(- ous), cut (off), finish, fulfill, gain (greedily), get, be given to (covetousness), greedy, perform, be wounded.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâtsa‛

1) to cut off, break off, gain by unrighteous violence, get, finish, be covetous, be greedy

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to cut off

1a2) to stop

1a3) to gain wrongfully or by violence

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to cut off, sever

1b2) to finish, complete, accomplish

1b3) to violently make gain of

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

Judges 5:19: "of Megiddo; they took no gain of money."
Job 6:9: "to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!"
Job 27:8: "is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?"
Psalms 10:3: "his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth."
Proverbs 1:19: "So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life"
Proverbs 15:27: " He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live."
Isaiah 10:12: "Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount"
Isaiah 38:12: "I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day"
Jeremiah 6:13: "from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet"
Jeremiah 8:10: "from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness,"
Lamentations 2:17: "hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days"
Ezekiel 22:12: "thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith"
Ezekiel 22:27: "and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain."
Joel 2:8: "upon the sword, they shall not be wounded."
Amos 9:1: "the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, of them; and I will slay the last"
Habakkuk 2:9: "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high,"
Zechariah 4:9: "of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts"