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. Ezra 10:3 נִֽכְרָת־ nikh.rot- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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