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. Obadiah 1:9 יִכָּֽרֶת־ yi.ka.ret- · A mild command: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.

  2. Obadiah 1:10 וְנִכְרַ֖תָּ ve.nikh.Ra.ta · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by you

    For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

  3. Obadiah 1:14 לְהַכְרִ֖ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the day of distress.

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