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:
2 Chronicles 5:10: "therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out"
2 Chronicles 6:11: "wherein is the covenant of the LORD, he made with the children of Israel."
2 Chronicles 6:16: "thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit"
2 Chronicles 7:18: "the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David saying, There shall not"
2 Chronicles 7:18: "saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel."
2 Chronicles 15:16: "she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped"
2 Chronicles 21:7: "the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give"
2 Chronicles 22:7: "of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab."
2 Chronicles 23:3: "And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house"
2 Chronicles 23:16: "And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people,"
2 Chronicles 29:10: "Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God"
2 Chronicles 34:31: "stood in his place, and made a covenant the LORD,"
Ezra 10:3: "Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives,"
Nehemiah 9:8: "his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant him to give"
Nehemiah 9:38: "And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes,"
Job 14:7: "hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout and that the tender branch thereof will not"
Job 31:1: " I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"
Job 41:4: " Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant forever?"
Psalms 12:3: "The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh"
Psalms 34:16: "of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth."
Psalms 37:9: "For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit"
Psalms 37:22: "of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off."
Psalms 37:28: "forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off."
Psalms 37:34: "thee to inherit when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see"
Psalms 37:38: "together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off."
Psalms 50:5: "Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
Psalms 83:5: "For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate they are confederate against"
Psalms 89:3: " I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,"
Psalms 101:8: "all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all doers from the city"
Psalms 105:9: "Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;"
Psalms 109:13: "Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out."
Psalms 109:15: "before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth."
Proverbs 2:22: "But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of"
Proverbs 10:31: "wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out."
Proverbs 23:18: "an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off."
Proverbs 24:14: "and thy expectation shall not be cut off."
Isaiah 9:14: "Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush,"
Isaiah 10:7: "but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few."
Isaiah 11:13: "shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim envy"
Isaiah 14:8: "saying, Since thou art laid down, feller is come up against"
Isaiah 14:22: "them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon and remnant, and son,"
Isaiah 18:5: "is in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down"
Isaiah 22:25: "and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 28:15: "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with"
Isaiah 29:20: "and all that watch are cut off:"
Isaiah 37:24: "of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees"
Isaiah 44:14: " He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees"
Isaiah 48:9: "will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off."
Isaiah 48:19: "like the gravel thereof; his name have been cut off nor destroyed from before"
Isaiah 55:3: "me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies"
