Strong's Hebrew: 1214. בָּצַע (batsa) -- to cut off, break off, gain by violence

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batsa: to cut off, break off, gain by violence

Original Word: בָּצַע
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: batsa
Phonetic Spelling: (baw-tsah')
Short Definition: greedy

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to cut off, break off, gain by violence
NASB Translation
accomplished (1), break (1), break ranks (1), completed (1), cut me off (1), cut off (1), cuts me off (1), finish (1), gains by violence (1), get dishonest (1), gets (1), greedy (2), greedy man (1), injured your for gain (1), profits (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[בָּצַע] verb cut off, break off, gain by violence (so Late Hebrew, Arabic

, Ethiopic

Aramaic בְּצַע) —

Qal Imperfect יִבְצָ֑ע Job 27:8, יִבְצָ֑עוּ Joel 2:8; Imperative suffix בְּצָ֫עַם בְּרֹאשׁ Amos 9:1; Infinitive בְּצֹעַ Ezekiel 22:27; Participle בּוֺצֵעַ Proverbs 15:27; Jeremiah 6:13, בֹּצֵעַ Psalm 10:3 3t.; — cut off, break off (with accusative capitals of pillars) Amos 9:1 (but Lag^Prov. see vi בְּצַעַם = בְּזַעַם Habakkuk 3:12 in wrath); so figurative Job 27:8 when Eloah cutteth off, draweth out, his soul; object omitted their course, i.e. stop Joel 2:8 (compare Hi-St); usually gain by violence or in General wrongfully Ezekiel 22:27; Participle absolute Psalm 10:3 = greedy getter, robber; and with accusative of congnate meaning with verb בֶּ֫צַע Proverbs 1:19; Proverbs 15:27; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:10; Habakkuk 2:9.

Pi`el Perfect בִּצַּע Lamentations 2:17; Imperfect יְבַצַּע Isaiah 10:12; suffix יְבַצְּעֵנִי Isaiah 38:12; Job 6:9; 2feminine singular וַתְּבַצְּעִי Ezekiel 22:12; 3feminine plural תְּבַצָּ֑עְנָה Zechariah 4:9; — cut off, (dis) sever (i.e. from life) Job 6:9 compare Isaiah 10:19 (מִדַּלָּה); = finish, complete Isaiah 10:12; Zechariah 4:9; accomplish (= carry out, fulfil) Lamentations 2:17 (object אמרתו); violently make gain of, object person Ezekiel 22:12 (instrumental בּעשׁק).

Strong's

be covetous, cut off, finish, fulfill, gain greedily, be given to covetousness, greedy,

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.