# בָּצַע (batsa)

Israeli respelling: ba-tsa. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1214. 16 Old Testament occurrences.

figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop

King James renderings: (be) covet(-ous), cut (off), finish, fulfill, gain (greedily), get, be given to (covetousness), greedy, perform, be wounded.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/batsa-h1214

## Occurrences

- [Job 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/9) — Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- [Job 27:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/8) — For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
- [Psalms 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/3) — For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
- [Proverbs 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/19) — So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- [Proverbs 15:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/27) — He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
- [Isaiah 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/12) — Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit…
- [Isaiah 38:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/12) — Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sic…
- [Jeremiah 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/13) — For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest eve…
- [Jeremiah 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/10) — Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the…
- [Lamentations 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/17) — The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and…
- [Ezekiel 22:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/12) — In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extorti…
- [Ezekiel 22:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/27) — Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
- [Joel 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/8) — Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
- [Amos 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/1) — I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all…
- [Habakkuk 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/9) — Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of ev…
- [Zechariah 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/4/9) — The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts…