A rare Niphal verb from a root meaning 'to cut' or 'cut off,' appearing only in Psalm 31:22 where the psalmist confesses his hasty cry: 'I am cut off from your sight!' The Arabic cognate confirms the sense of severance or extermination. In this context, it expresses the visceral feeling of exile from God's presence—not physical death, but the terror of spiritual exclusion. The psalmist immediately corrects himself: God did hear his plea. But the word captures that dark moment when all seems lost.