# קָטַף (qataf)

Israeli respelling: qa-taf. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6998. 5 Old Testament occurrences.

to strip off

King James renderings: crop off, cut down (up), pluck.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/qataf-h6998

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 23:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/25) — When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle…
- [Job 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/12) — Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- [Job 30:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/4) — Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- [Ezekiel 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/4) — He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
- [Ezekiel 17:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/22) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his you…