כָּרַת

ka.rat · to cut: eliminate

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

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. 2 Chronicles 2:8 לִכְר֖וֹת likh.Rot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

  2. 2 Chronicles 2:10 לְֽכֹרְתֵ֣י׀ le.kho.re.Tei · An -ing word: simple action

    And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

  3. 2 Chronicles 2:16 נִכְרֹ֨ת nikh.Rot · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

  4. 2 Chronicles 5:10 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 which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

  5. 2 Chronicles 6:11 כָּרַ֖ת ka.Rat · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And there have I set the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with the children of Israel.

  6. 2 Chronicles 6:16 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 in my law as thou hast walked before me.

  7. 2 Chronicles 7:18 כָּרַ֗תִּי ka.Ra.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

  8. 2 Chronicles 7:18 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, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

  9. 2 Chronicles 15:16 וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

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

  10. 2 Chronicles 21:7 כָּרַ֖ת ka.Rat · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.

  11. 2 Chronicles 22:7 לְהַכְרִ֖ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went unto Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

  12. 2 Chronicles 23:3 וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the sons of David.

  13. 2 Chronicles 23:16 וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah's people.

  14. 2 Chronicles 29:10 לִכְר֣וֹת likh.Rot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

  15. 2 Chronicles 34:31 וַיִּכְרֹ֣ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

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