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. Zechariah 9:6 וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

  2. Zechariah 9:10 וְהִכְרַתִּי־ ve.hikh.ra.ti- · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

  3. Zechariah 9:10 וְנִכְרְתָה֙ ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

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

    And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

  5. Zechariah 13:2 אַכְרִ֞ית 'akh.Rit · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

  6. Zechariah 13:8 יִכָּרְת֖וּ yi.ka.re.Tu · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

  7. Zechariah 14:2 יִכָּרֵ֖ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

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