Strong's #6998: qataph (pronounced kaw-taf')

a primitive root; to strip off:--crop off, cut down (up), pluck.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qâṭaph

1) to pluck off or out, cut off

1a) (Qal) to pluck off

1b) (Niphal) to be plucked off

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Deuteronomy 23:25: "thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move"
Job 8:12: "Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb."
Job 30:4: " Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat."
Ezekiel 17:4: " He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic;"
Ezekiel 17:22: "of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs"