to cut
qa.tsats denotes cutting or severing, whether of objects, cords, or human limbs, and can describe people as cut at the side.
The attested uses chiefly describe forceful physical severing: panels, temple elements, gold vessels, cords, and hands or feet are cut away, cut in pieces, or cut off. Three passive participial occurrences describe people as “cut off at the side,” while the APB wording of Psalm 46:10 does not make this verb’s contribution identifiable.
Senses in use
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Physically severing objects, cords, or limbs · dominant
Piel forms occur where articles of the house of God are cut in pieces in 2 Chronicles 28:24, panels are cut away in 2 Kings 16:17, and gold vessels are cut in pieces in 2 Kings 24:13. The same active use concerns bodily members: in 2 Samuel 4:12 the APB renders the clause “they cut off their hands and their feet,” and in Judges 1:6 it renders the cutting off of thumbs and toes; Psalm 129:4 applies the action to “the cord of the wicked.”
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Those described as cut at the side · occasional
The Qal passive participle is used as a plural construct description in Jeremiah 25:23 and Jeremiah 49:32, where the APB renders the group “those cut off at the side.” Jeremiah 9:25 uses the same form in the announcement of punishment for those described in the verse as circumcised yet remaining in their foreskins.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously renders the action as “cut... in pieces,” “cut away,” and “cut off,” according to the verse’s objects or body parts. Its rendering is read at the verse level; in Psalm 46:10, it does not visibly represent this verb with a cutting expression.