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. Exodus 4:25 וַתִּכְרֹת֙ va.tikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.

  2. Exodus 8:9 לְהַכְרִית֙ le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Have thou this glory over me: against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?

  3. Exodus 12:15 וְנִכְרְתָ֞ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

  4. Exodus 12:19 וְנִכְרְתָ֞ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.

  5. Exodus 23:32 תִכְרֹ֥ת tikh.Rot · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  6. Exodus 24:8 כָּרַ֤ת ka.Rat · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.

  7. Exodus 30:33 וְנִכְרַ֖ת ve.nikh.Rat · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.

  8. Exodus 30:38 וְנִכְרַ֖ת ve.nikh.Rat · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.

  9. Exodus 31:14 וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  10. Exodus 34:10 כֹּרֵ֣ת ko.Ret · An -ing word: simple action

    And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.

  11. Exodus 34:12 תִּכְרֹ֤ת tikh.Rot · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

  12. Exodus 34:13 תִּכְרֹתֽוּן׃ tikh.ro.Tun · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim

  13. Exodus 34:15 תִּכְרֹ֥ת tikh.Rot · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

  14. Exodus 34:27 כָּרַ֧תִּי ka.Ra.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

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