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. Ezekiel 21:3 וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

  2. Ezekiel 21:4 הִכְרַ֥תִּי hikh.Ra.ti · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

  3. Ezekiel 25:7 וְהִכְרַתִּ֙יךָ֙ ve.hikh.ra.Ti.kha · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

  4. Ezekiel 25:13 וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.

  5. Ezekiel 25:16 וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

  6. Ezekiel 29:8 וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast.

  7. Ezekiel 30:15 וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will pour my wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

  8. Ezekiel 31:12 וַיִּכְרְתֻ֧הוּ vai.yikh.re.Tu.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

  9. Ezekiel 34:25 וְכָרַתִּ֤י ve.kha.ra.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

  10. Ezekiel 35:7 וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

  11. Ezekiel 37:26 וְכָרַתִּ֤י ve.kha.ra.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

  12. Daniel 9:26 יִכָּרֵ֥ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

  13. Hosea 2:18 וְכָרַתִּ֨י ve.kha.ra.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.

  14. Hosea 8:4 יִכָּרֵֽת׃ yi.ka.Ret · A mild command: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

  15. Hosea 10:4 כָּרֹ֣ת ka.Rot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

  16. Hosea 12:1 יִכְרֹ֔תוּ yikh.Ro.tu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  17. Joel 1:5 נִכְרַ֖ת nikh.Rat · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  18. Joel 1:9 הָכְרַ֥ת ha.khe.Rat · An action: being caused, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

  19. Joel 1:16 נִכְרָ֑ת nikh.Rat · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

  20. Amos 1:5 וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.

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