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. Zephaniah 1:3 וְהִכְרַתִּ֣י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.

  2. Zephaniah 1:4 וְהִכְרַתִּ֞י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will stretch out my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarim with the priests;

  3. Zephaniah 1:11 נִכְרְת֖וּ nikh.re.Tu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people of Canaan are undone; all they that were laden with silver are cut off.

  4. Zephaniah 3:6 הִכְרַ֣תִּי hikh.Ra.ti · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

  5. Zephaniah 3:7 יִכָּרֵ֣ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    I said, Only fear thou me; receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

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