Brown-Driver-Briggs  [קָצַב]  verb cut off, shear (?) (Late Hebrew קָצַב decide, determine, Pi`el chop meat; Palmyrene קצבא butcher, so Syriac  Qal Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִקְצָכעֵץֿ 2 Kings 6:6 he cut off a stick; Passive participle feminine plural עֵדֶר הַקְּצוּבוֺת Songs 4:2 a flock of (sheep) that are shorn (?).  Forms and Transliterations הַקְּצוּב֔וֹת הקצובות וַיִּקְצָב־ ויקצב־ hakketzuVot haq·qə·ṣū·ḇō·wṯ haqqəṣūḇōwṯ vaiyiktzov way·yiq·ṣāḇ- wayyiqṣāḇ-Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts | 
, Jewish-Aramaic קַצָּכָא, and Arabic 
 as loan-word Frä258; Arabic 
 also is cut off a branch); — 


