Strong's #1438: gada` (pronounced gaw-dah')

a primitive root; to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything:--cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâda‛

1) to cut, hew, chop, cut down, hew down, hew off, cut off, cut in two, shave off

1a) (Qal) to hew, chop in two

1b) (Niphal) to be chopped off, be hewn off

1c) (Piel) to cut off or down in two, hew off or down in two

1d) (Pual) to chop down, hew down

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Deuteronomy 7:5: "with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images"
Deuteronomy 12:3: "and burn with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy"
Judges 21:6: "and said, tribe cut off from Israel this day."
1 Samuel 2:31: "Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm"
2 Chronicles 14:3: "and broke down and cut down the groves:"
2 Chronicles 31:1: "of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down"
2 Chronicles 34:4: "that above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images,"
2 Chronicles 34:7: "and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land"
Psalms 75:10: "All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted."
Psalms 107:16: "he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron"
Isaiah 9:10: "but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change"
Isaiah 10:33: "with terror: of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled."
Isaiah 14:12: "from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down which didst weaken"
Isaiah 22:25: "place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon"
Isaiah 45:2: "thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:"
Jeremiah 48:25: "The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 50:23: "is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how become"
Lamentations 2:3: " He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn"
Ezekiel 6:6: "may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished."
Amos 3:14: "of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground."
Zechariah 11:10: "my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant"
Zechariah 11:14: " Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break"