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. Jeremiah 6:6 כִּרְת֣וּ kir.Tu · A command to all of you: simple action

    For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

  2. Jeremiah 7:28 וְנִכְרְתָ֖ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  3. Jeremiah 9:21 לְהַכְרִ֤ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

  4. Jeremiah 10:3 כְּרָת֔וֹ ke.ra.To · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

  5. Jeremiah 11:10 כָּרַ֖תִּי ka.Ra.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  6. Jeremiah 11:19 וְנִכְרְתֶ֙נּוּ֙ ve.nikh.re.Te.nu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  7. Jeremiah 22:7 וְכָֽרְתוּ֙ ve.kha.re.Tu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  8. Jeremiah 31:31 וְכָרַתִּ֗י ve.kha.ra.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

  9. Jeremiah 31:32 כָּרַ֙תִּי֙ ka.Ra.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

  10. Jeremiah 31:33 אֶכְרֹת֩ 'ekh.Rot · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

  11. Jeremiah 32:40 וְכָרַתִּ֤י ve.kha.ra.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

  12. Jeremiah 33:17 יִכָּרֵ֣ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For thus saith Jehovah: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

  13. Jeremiah 33:18 יִכָּרֵ֥ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

  14. Jeremiah 34:8 כְּרֹת֩ ke.Rot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

  15. Jeremiah 34:13 כָּרַ֤תִּֽי ka.Ra.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

  16. Jeremiah 34:15 וַתִּכְרְת֤וּ va.tikh.re.Tu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by all of you

    And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

  17. Jeremiah 34:18 כָּרְת֖וּ ka.re.Tu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;

  18. Jeremiah 34:18 כָּרְת֣וּ ka.re.Tu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;

  19. Jeremiah 35:19 יִכָּרֵ֨ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

  20. Jeremiah 44:7 לְהַכְרִ֨ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Therefore now thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;

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