Strong's #8295: sarat (pronounced saw-rat')

a primitive root; to gash:--cut in pieces, make (cuttings) pieces.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâraṭ

1) to incise, scratch, tattoo, cut

1a) (Qal) to make incision

1b) (Niphal) to be scratched or lacerated, be cut

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Leviticus 21:5: "the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh."
Zechariah 12:3: "people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth"
Zechariah 12:3: "people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth"