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. Joshua 3:13 יִכָּ֣רֵת֔וּן yi.Ka.re.Tun · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.

  2. Joshua 3:16 נִכְרָ֑תוּ nikh.Ra.tu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

  3. Joshua 4:7 נִכְרְת֜וּ nikh.re.Tu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

  4. Joshua 4:7 נִכְרְת֖וּ nikh.re.Tu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

  5. Joshua 7:9 וְהִכְרִ֥יתוּ ve.hikh.Ri.tu · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by them

    For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

  6. Joshua 9:6 כִּרְתוּ־ kir.tu- · A command to all of you: simple action

    And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make ye a covenant with us.

  7. Joshua 9:7 אֶֽכְרָת 'ekh.rot- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

  8. Joshua 9:11 כִּרְתוּ־ kir.tu- · A command to all of you: simple action

    And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: and now make ye a covenant with us.

  9. Joshua 9:15 וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

  10. Joshua 9:16 כָּרְת֥וּ ka.re.Tu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.

  11. Joshua 9:23 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 ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

  12. Joshua 11:21 וַיַּכְרֵ֤ת vai.yakh.Ret · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

  13. Joshua 23:4 הִכְרַ֔תִּי hikh.Ra.ti · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Behold, I have allotted unto you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun.

  14. Joshua 24:25 וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

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