קָצַע
qa.tsa
H7106A
H:V
Hebrew
to scrape
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Occurrences
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Books
Hebrew
Language
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
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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.