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:
Numbers 19:13: "the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because"
Numbers 19:20: "purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because"
Deuteronomy 4:23: "of the LORD your God, he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness"
Deuteronomy 5:2: "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb."
Deuteronomy 5:3: "The LORD made not this covenant with"
Deuteronomy 7:2: "them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make covenant with them, nor"
Deuteronomy 9:9: "of the covenant the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty"
Deuteronomy 12:29: "When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before"
Deuteronomy 19:1: "When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose"
Deuteronomy 19:5: "fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from"
Deuteronomy 20:19: "them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree"
Deuteronomy 20:20: "for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city"
Deuteronomy 23:1: "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD."
Deuteronomy 29:1: "commanded to make with the children of Israel in the land"
Deuteronomy 29:1: "beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb."
Deuteronomy 29:12: "which the LORD maketh with thee this day:"
Deuteronomy 29:14: "with you only do I make this and this"
Deuteronomy 29:25: "of the LORD God which he made with them when he brought them forth"
Deuteronomy 31:16: "me, and break my covenant which I have made with"
Joshua 3:13: "of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above;"
Joshua 3:16: "toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people"
Joshua 4:7: "them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark"
Joshua 4:7: "when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be"
Joshua 7:9: "of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from"
Joshua 9:6: "We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league"
Joshua 9:7: "among us; and how shall we make a league"
Joshua 9:11: "them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league"
Joshua 9:16: "at the end of three days after they had made a league"
Joshua 9:23: "are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, of wood and drawers"
Joshua 11:21: "time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims the mountains,"
Joshua 23:4: "with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward."
Joshua 24:25: "So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set"
Judges 2:2: "And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land;"
Judges 4:24: "Jabin of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin"
Judges 6:25: "the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by"
Judges 6:26: "with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down."
Judges 6:28: "of Baal and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock"
Judges 6:30: "the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by"
Judges 9:48: "an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid"
Judges 9:49: "And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed"
Ruth 4:10: "that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate"
1 Samuel 2:33: "And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume"
1 Samuel 5:4: "of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only"
1 Samuel 11:1: "of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve"
1 Samuel 11:2: "the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all"
1 Samuel 17:51: "and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines"
1 Samuel 18:3: "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul."
1 Samuel 20:15: "But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house forever:"
1 Samuel 20:15: "my house forever: when the LORD hath cut off the enemies"
1 Samuel 20:16: "So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require"
