כָּרַת

ka.rat · to cut: eliminate

Hebrew · Strong's H3772 · Verb · Sounds like: kaw-rath' · 288 occurrences

English

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to cut: eliminate H3772I · a Meaning of 137
  • to cut: make(covenant) H3772H · a Meaning of 88
  • to cut: cut H3772G 52
  • to cut: lack H3772J · a Meaning of 11

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces); be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כָּרַת 291 vb. cut off, cut down
Qal
1. cut off
2. cut down
3. hew, timber
4. cut, or make a covenant
Niph.
1. be cut off
2. be cut down
3. be chewed between the teeth
4. be cut off, in a more general sense fail
Pual
1. be cut off
2. be cut down
Hiph.
1. cut off, flattering lips
2. cut off, destroy the life of
3. cut down, destroy, cities
4. take away
5. permit to perish

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Kings 2:4 יִכָּרֵ֤ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    That Jehovah may establish his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

  2. 1 Kings 5:6 וְיִכְרְתוּ־ ve.yikh.re.tu- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Now therefore command thou that they cut me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt say: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that knoweth how to cut timber like unto the Sidonians.

  3. 1 Kings 5:6 לִכְרָת־ likh.rot- · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Now therefore command thou that they cut me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt say: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that knoweth how to cut timber like unto the Sidonians.

  4. 1 Kings 5:12 וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ vai.yikh.re.Tu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

  5. 1 Kings 8:9 כָּרַ֤ת ka.Rat · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  6. 1 Kings 8:21 כָּרַת֙ ka.Rat · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  7. 1 Kings 8:25 יִכָּרֵ֨ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

  8. 1 Kings 9:5 יִכָּרֵ֤ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, according as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

  9. 1 Kings 9:7 וְהִכְרַתִּ֣י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  10. 1 Kings 11:16 הִכְרִ֥ית hikh.Rit · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

  11. 1 Kings 14:10 וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone.

  12. 1 Kings 14:14 יַכְרִ֛ית yakh.Rit · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Moreover Jehovah will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

  13. 1 Kings 15:13 וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

  14. 1 Kings 18:4 בְּהַכְרִ֣ית be.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

  15. 1 Kings 18:5 נַכְרִ֖ית nakh.Rit · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

  16. 1 Kings 20:34 וַיִּכְרָת־ vai.yikh.rot- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I, said Ahab, will let thee go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

  17. 1 Kings 21:21 וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel:

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