כָּסַח

[כָּסַח] verb cut off or away, a plant (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּסַח, (for Hebrew זָמַר); Arabic sweep off, away, destroy, do away with; compare Sabean כסח overpower, conquer, Hom^{ZMG 1892, 532}) — only Qal Passive participle, feminine singular כְּסוּחָה Sl 80,17, cut away, of Israel under figure of vine; masculine plural קוֺצִים כְּסוּחִים Es 33,12 thorns cut away, figurative of peoples destroyed by divine judgment.