to cut
ka.sach describes something marked as having been cut, explicitly applied to thorns in Isaiah 33:12.
The attested forms are passive participles describing something as having been cut: Isaiah 33:12 explicitly places the form with thorns set on fire, while Psalm 80:17 supplies a feminine singular form whose specific contribution is not clear in the translation.
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Marked as having been cut · dominant
Both occurrences are Qal passive participles. In Isaiah 33:12, the masculine plural form occurs in the comparison that the APB renders “like cut thorns that are set on fire”; Psalm 80:17 has the feminine singular form, though the APB rendering does not make its specific contribution identifiable.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 33:12, the APB explicitly renders the clause with “cut thorns.” In Psalm 80:17, the translation does not clearly show how the feminine singular participle is reflected.