Lexicon
קָצַע
qa.tsa
H7106A
H:V Hebrew

to scrape

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Hebrew
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qa.tsa describes scraping the inside of a house and removing the material scraped away.

The attested use describes scraping the inside of a house around its interior, with the scraped-off dust then taken outside the city in Leviticus 14:41.

Senses in use

  1. Scraping a house’s interior surface · dominant

    In Leviticus 14:41, the Hiphil imperfect form occurs in the instruction to scrape the house “on the inside all around”; the APB then describes pouring the scraped-off dust outside the city.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Leviticus 14:41, the APB renders the action as “scrape the house on the inside all around” and refers to “the scraped-off dust.” The verse is read as a whole.

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