קיצץ

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kiˈt͡set͡s/

קיצץ / קִצֵּץ • (kitséts) (pi'el construction, passive counterpart קוצץ / קֻצַץ)

1. to cut apart or off, amputate, trim
   • Tanach, 2 Samuel 4:12, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיְצַו דָּוִד אֶת־הַנְּעָרִים וַיַּהַרְגוּם וַיְקַצְּצוּ אֶת־יְדֵיהֶם וְאֶת־רַגְלֵיהֶם וַיִּתְלוּ עַל־הַבְּרֵכָה בְּחֶבְרוֹן וְאֵת רֹאשׁ אִישׁ־בֹּשֶׁת לָקָחוּ וַיִּקְבְּרוּ בְקֶבֶר־אַבְנֵר בְּחֶבְרוֹן׃

     And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

   • Tanach, Psalms 129:4, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     יְהֹוָה צַדִּיק קִצֵּץ עֲבוֹת רְשָׁעִים׃

     The LORD is righteous; He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

2. (Modern Israeli Hebrew, figuratively) to lower, reduce [with בְּ־]

• קַצָּץ (katsáts, “woodcutter”)

• H7112 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “קָצַץ”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 590a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1407b
• “קיצץ” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language