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:
Daniel 9:26: "and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not of the prince that shall come"
Hosea 2:18: "And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field,"
Hosea 8:4: "have they made them idols, that they may be cut off."
Hosea 10:4: "words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment as hemlock"
Hosea 12:1: "he daily increaseth and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians,"
Joel 1:5: "the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth."
Joel 1:9: "The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's"
Joel 1:16: "Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness"
Amos 1:5: "I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven,"
Amos 1:8: " And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon,"
Amos 2:3: " And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with"
Obadiah 1:9: "every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter."
Obadiah 1:10: "against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever."
Obadiah 1:14: "shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; shouldest thou have delivered up"
Micah 5:9: "thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off."
Micah 5:10: "day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses of thee, and I will destroy"
Micah 5:11: " And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds:"
Micah 5:12: " And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:"
Micah 5:13: "Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship"
Nahum 1:14: "of thy name be sown: of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image:"
Nahum 1:15: "more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off."
Nahum 2:13: "and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice"
Nahum 3:15: "shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: as the cankerworm,"
Zephaniah 1:3: "and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off"
Zephaniah 1:4: "all the inhabitants and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from"
Zephaniah 1:11: "all they that bear silver are cut off."
Zephaniah 3:6: " I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none"
Zephaniah 3:7: "instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished"
Haggai 2:5: "According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt,"
Zechariah 9:6: "And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines."
Zechariah 9:10: " And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle"
Zechariah 9:10: "and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace"
Zechariah 11:10: "that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people."
Zechariah 13:2: "saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of"
Zechariah 13:8: "the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left"
Zechariah 14:2: "and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city."
Malachi 2:12: "The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar,"
