ga.zaz denotes shearing a flock, and in several lament contexts cutting or shaving hair.

The dominant use concerns shearing a flock or the people carrying out that work; the same action is also applied to cutting or shaving hair in acts of grief. One Niphal perfect occurs in Nahum 1:12, where the APB presents people as “sheared and pass away.”

1. Shearing flocks and those who shear them · dominant

   Infinitive constructs in Genesis 31:19 and Genesis 38:13 occur with going to shear a flock, while participles in 1 Samuel 25:4 and 2 Samuel 13:23 identify the shearing activity or its workers. In Isaiah 53:7, the construct participle occurs in the comparison of a sheep before its shearers; the APB renders the clause “before its shearers is silent.”

   1 Samuel 25:21 Samuel 25:42 Samuel 13:23Genesis 31:19Genesis 38:13Isaiah 53:7
2. Cutting or shaving hair · occasional

   The feminine singular imperatives in Jeremiah 7:29 and Micah 1:16 address a woman with commands concerning hair and baldness; the APB renders “Cut off your hair” and “shear yourselves.” In Job 1:20, a Qal sequential imperfect occurs among Job's actions after he arose and tore his robe, and the APB renders “shaved his head.”

   Jeremiah 7:29Job 1:20Micah 1:16
3. Being sheared and passing away · rare

   Nahum 1:12 uses a Niphal perfect plural in a statement about those who are complete and numerous; the APB renders them as “sheared and pass away.” The clause supports a passive presentation distinct from the active flock-shearing scenes.

   Nahum 1:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the flock passages, the APB commonly uses “shear,” “shearing,” and “shearers”; it uses “Cut off your hair,” “shaved his head,” and “shear yourselves” in the hair contexts. These renderings present the verse-level action.