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. Numbers 4:18 תַּכְרִ֕יתוּ takh.Ri.tu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

  2. Numbers 9:13 וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

  3. Numbers 11:33 יִכָּרֵ֑ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.

  4. Numbers 13:23 וַיִּכְרְת֨וּ vai.yikh.re.Tu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

  5. Numbers 13:24 כָּרְת֥וּ ka.re.Tu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

  6. Numbers 15:30 וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemeth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  7. Numbers 15:31 הִכָּרֵ֧ת׀ hi.ka.Ret · The “to do” form of an action: receiving the action

    Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

  8. Numbers 15:31 תִּכָּרֵ֛ת ti.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

  9. Numbers 19:13 וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Whosoever toucheth a dead person, the body of a man that hath died, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

  10. Numbers 19:20 וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

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