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Strong's #1504: gazar (pronounced gaw-zar')

a primitive root; to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide:--cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâzar

1) to cut, divide, cut down, cut off, cut in two, snatch, decree

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to cut in two, divide

1a2) to cut down

1a3) to cut off, destroy, exterminate

1a4) to decree

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be cut off, separated, excluded

1b2) to be destroyed, cut off

1b3) to be decreed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

1 Kings 3:25: "And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give"
1 Kings 3:26: "said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide"
2 Kings 6:4: "with to Jordan, they cut down wood."
2 Chronicles 26:21: "house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham"
Esther 2:1: "and what she had done, and what was decreed against"
Job 22:28: " Thou shalt also decree a thing, unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways."
Psalms 88:5: "no more: and they are cut off from thy hand."
Psalms 136:13: " To him which divided the Red into parts: for his mercy endureth forever:"
Isaiah 9:20: " And he shall snatch on and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not"
Isaiah 53:8: "and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land"
Lamentations 3:54: "mine head; then I said, I am cut off."
Ezekiel 37:11: "are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off"
Habakkuk 3:17: "no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd"









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