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:
1 Samuel 22:8: "me, and there is none that showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son"
1 Samuel 23:18: "And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode"
1 Samuel 24:4: "it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's"
1 Samuel 24:5: "that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's"
1 Samuel 24:11: "of thy robe for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed"
1 Samuel 24:21: "now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed me, and that"
1 Samuel 28:9: "Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of"
1 Samuel 31:9: " And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent"
2 Samuel 3:12: "is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand"
2 Samuel 3:13: "And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but"
2 Samuel 3:21: "unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all"
2 Samuel 3:29: "his father's and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue,"
2 Samuel 5:3: "to Hebron; David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD:"
2 Samuel 7:9: "with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all"
2 Samuel 10:4: "the of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to"
2 Samuel 20:22: "all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son"
1 Kings 2:4: "and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on"
1 Kings 5:6: "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants"
1 Kings 5:6: "there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians."
1 Kings 5:12: "Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together."
1 Kings 8:9: "at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out"
1 Kings 8:21: "wherein is the covenant of the LORD, he made with our fathers, when he brought them out"
1 Kings 8:25: "thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit"
1 Kings 9:5: "thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne"
1 Kings 9:7: " Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which"
1 Kings 11:16: "with all until he had cut off every male in Edom:)"
1 Kings 14:10: "upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up"
1 Kings 14:14: "over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that"
1 Kings 15:13: "an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt"
1 Kings 18:4: "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah"
1 Kings 18:5: "we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts."
1 Kings 20:34: "in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away."
1 Kings 21:21: "upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up"
2 Kings 9:8: "house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth and him that is shut up"
2 Kings 11:4: "them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD,"
2 Kings 11:17: "And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king"
2 Kings 17:15: "his statutes, and his covenant that he made with and his testimonies which"
2 Kings 17:35: "With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not"
2 Kings 17:38: "And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither"
2 Kings 18:4: "and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen"
2 Kings 19:23: "of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees"
2 Kings 23:3: "stood by a pillar, and made a covenant the LORD,"
2 Kings 23:14: "And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled"
1 Chronicles 11:3: "the king to Hebron; made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD;"
1 Chronicles 16:16: "Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;"
1 Chronicles 17:8: "with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all"
1 Chronicles 19:4: "David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by"
2 Chronicles 2:8: "know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold,"
2 Chronicles 2:10: "I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty measures"
2 Chronicles 2:16: "And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need:"
