Strong's #3772: karath (pronounced kaw-rath')
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)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kârath
1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cut off
1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead
1a2) to cut down
1a3) to hew
1a4) to cut or make a covenant
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be cut off
1b2) to be cut down
1b3) to be chewed
1b4) to be cut off, fail
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to be cut off
1c2) to be cut down
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cut off
1d2) to cut off, destroy
1d3) to cut down, destroy
1d4) to take away
1d5) to permit to perish
1e) (Hophal) cut off
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 287 times:
Genesis 9:11: "you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood;"
Genesis 15:18: "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,"
Genesis 17:14: "that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken"
Genesis 21:27: "and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant."
Genesis 21:32: " Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain"
Genesis 26:28: "now an oath between us, even between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with"
Genesis 31:44: "Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be"
Genesis 41:36: "in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine."
Exodus 4:25: "Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son,"
Exodus 8:9: "shall I entreat and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses,"
Exodus 12:15: "from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel."
Exodus 12:19: "that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger,"
Exodus 23:32: " Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods."
Exodus 24:8: "of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these"
Exodus 30:33: "putteth any of it upon shall even be cut off from his people."
Exodus 30:38: "Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people."
Exodus 31:14: "doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people."
Exodus 34:10: "And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all"
Exodus 34:12: "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither"
Exodus 34:13: "their altars, break their images, and cut down"
Exodus 34:15: "Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after"
Exodus 34:27: "the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel."
Leviticus 7:20: "having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people."
Leviticus 7:21: "which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people."
Leviticus 7:25: "an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people."
Leviticus 7:27: "of blood, even that shall be cut off from his people."
Leviticus 17:4: "blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:"
Leviticus 17:9: "even that man shall be cut off from among his people."
Leviticus 17:10: "my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among"
Leviticus 17:14: "flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off."
Leviticus 18:29: "any of these abominations, even the souls them shall be cut off from among"
Leviticus 19:8: "and that soul shall be cut off from among his people."
Leviticus 20:3: "my face against that man, and will cut him off his people;"
Leviticus 20:5: "against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after"
Leviticus 20:6: "my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people."
Leviticus 20:17: "his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered"
Leviticus 20:18: "the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people."
Leviticus 22:3: "unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence:"
Leviticus 22:24: "that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; shall ye make any offering thereof in your land."
Leviticus 23:29: "in that day, he shall be cut off from among his people."
Leviticus 26:22: "wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy and make you few in number;"
Leviticus 26:30: "And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast"
Numbers 4:18: " Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among"
Numbers 9:13: "the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought"
Numbers 11:33: "between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath was kindled against the people,"
Numbers 13:23: "unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch"
Numbers 13:24: "of the cluster of grapes which of Israel cut down from thence."
Numbers 15:30: "the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among"
Numbers 15:31: "his commandment, that shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity"
Numbers 15:31: "his commandment, that shall utterly be cut off; shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity"
