כָּרַת
to cut
also: cut off, cut down, cut out, eliminate fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cut off’
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘cut off’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be cut off’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel. Here: ‘be cut off’
Form
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
132 distinct verses where H3772 appears in the Qal stem, across 24 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 5 verses
- Genesis 15:18 כָּרַ֧ת Qal pf 3ms In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 21:27 וַ/יִּכְרְת֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
- Genesis 21:32 וַ/יִּכְרְת֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Genesis 26:28 וְ/נִכְרְתָ֥ה conj + Qal coh 1cp They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
- Genesis 31:44 נִכְרְתָ֥ה Qal coh 1cp Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
Exodus 8 verses
- Exodus 4:25 וַ/תִּכְרֹת֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
- Exodus 23:32 תִכְרֹ֥ת Qal impf 2ms You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
- Exodus 24:8 כָּרַ֤ת Qal pf 3ms Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
- Exodus 34:10 כֹּרֵ֣ת Qal ptcp.act ms He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
- Exodus 34:12 תִּכְרֹ֤ת Qal impf 2ms Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
- Exodus 34:13 תִּכְרֹתֽוּ/ן Qal impf 2mp + sfx n but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
- Exodus 34:15 תִּכְרֹ֥ת Qal impf 2ms Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
- Exodus 34:27 כָּרַ֧תִּי Qal pf 1cs Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 13:23 וַ/יִּכְרְת֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Numbers 13:24 כָּרְת֥וּ Qal pf 3cp That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
Deuteronomy 14 verses
- Deuteronomy 4:23 כָּרַ֖ת Qal pf 3ms Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 5:2 כָּרַ֥ת Qal pf 3ms Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- Deuteronomy 5:3 כָּרַ֥ת Qal pf 3ms Yahweh didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
- Deuteronomy 7:2 תִכְרֹ֥ת Qal impf 2ms and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
- Deuteronomy 9:9 כָּרַ֥ת Qal pf 3ms When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
- Deuteronomy 19:5 לִ/כְרֹ֣ת prep + Qal inf.cs as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
- Deuteronomy 20:19 תִכְרֹ֑ת Qal impf 2ms When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
- Deuteronomy 20:20 וְ/כָרָ֑תָּ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
- Deuteronomy 23:1 וּ/כְר֥וּת conj + Qal ptcp.pass ms cs He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 29:1 לִ/כְרֹ֛ת כָּרַ֥ת prep + Qal inf.cs Qal pf 3ms These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
- Deuteronomy 29:12 כֹּרֵ֥ת Qal ptcp.act ms that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
- Deuteronomy 29:14 כֹּרֵת֙ Qal ptcp.act ms Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
- Deuteronomy 29:25 כָּרַ֣ת Qal pf 3ms Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
- Deuteronomy 31:16 כָּרַ֖תִּי Qal pf 1cs Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Joshua 6 verses
- Joshua 9:6 כִּרְתוּ Qal impv 2mp They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant with us.
- Joshua 9:7 אכרות אֶֽכְרָת לְ/ךָ֥ Qal impf 1cs Qal impf 1cs prep + sfx pers 2ms The men of Israel said to the Hivites, What if you dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
- Joshua 9:11 כִּרְתוּ Qal impv 2mp Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.
- Joshua 9:15 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֥ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
- Joshua 9:16 כָּרְת֥וּ Qal pf 3cp It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
- Joshua 24:25 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֨ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Judges 6 verses
- Judges 2:2 תִכְרְת֤וּ Qal impf 2mp and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
- Judges 6:25 תִּכְרֹֽת Qal juss 2ms It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;
- Judges 6:26 תִּכְרֹֽת Qal impf 2ms and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.
- Judges 6:30 כָרַ֖ת Qal pf 3ms Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.
- Judges 9:48 וַ/יִּכְרֹת֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
- Judges 9:49 וַ/יִּכְרְת֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp All the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
1 Samuel 12 verses
- 1 Samuel 5:4 כְּרֻתוֹת֙ Qal ptcp.pass fp When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.
- 1 Samuel 11:1 כְּרָת Qal impv 2ms Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.
- 1 Samuel 11:2 אֶכְרֹ֣ת Qal impf 1cs Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel.
- 1 Samuel 17:51 וַ/יִּכְרָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
- 1 Samuel 18:3 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֧ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
- 1 Samuel 20:16 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֥ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
- 1 Samuel 22:8 בִּ/כְרָת prep + Qal inf.cs that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
- 1 Samuel 23:18 וַ/יִּכְרְת֧וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
- 1 Samuel 24:4 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֛ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.
- 1 Samuel 24:5 כָּרַ֔ת Qal pf 3ms It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
- 1 Samuel 24:11 בְּ/כָרְתִ/י֩ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt after my life to take it.
- 1 Samuel 31:9 וַֽ/יִּכְרְתוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 3:12 כָּרְתָ֤/ה Qal impv 2ms + sfx h Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you.
- 2 Samuel 3:13 אֶכְרֹ֥ת Qal impf 1cs He said, Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing I require of you: that is, you shall not see my face, except you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.
- 2 Samuel 3:21 וְ/יִכְרְת֤וּ conj + Qal impf 3mp Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires. David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
- 2 Samuel 5:3 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֣ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: and they anointed David king over Israel.
- 2 Samuel 10:4 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֧ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
- 2 Samuel 20:22 וַֽ/יִּכְרְת֞וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
1 Kings 6 verses
- 1 Kings 5:6 וְ/יִכְרְתוּ לִ/כְרָת conj + Qal juss 3mp prep + Qal inf.cs Now therefore command you that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you shall say: for you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.
- 1 Kings 5:12 וַ/יִּכְרְת֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
- 1 Kings 8:9 כָּרַ֤ת Qal pf 3ms There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 8:21 כָּרַת֙ Qal pf 3ms There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 15:13 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֤ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 1 Kings 20:34 וַ/יִּכְרָת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms [Ben Hadad] said to him, The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. I, [said Ahab], will let you go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
2 Kings 9 verses
- 2 Kings 11:4 וַ/יִּכְרֹת֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and shown them the king's son.
- 2 Kings 11:17 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֨ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.
- 2 Kings 17:15 כָּרַ֣ת Qal pf 3ms They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.
- 2 Kings 17:35 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֨ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
- 2 Kings 17:38 כָּרַ֥תִּי Qal pf 1cs and the covenant that I have made with you you shall not forget; neither shall you fear other gods:
- 2 Kings 18:4 וְ/כָרַ֖ת conj + Qal pf 3ms He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kings 19:23 וְ/אֶכְרֹ֞ת conj + Qal impf 1cs By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
- 2 Kings 23:3 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֥ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
- 2 Kings 23:14 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֖ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 11:3 וַ/יִּכְרֹת֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.
- 1 Chronicles 16:16 כָּרַת֙ Qal pf 3ms [The covenant] which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
- 1 Chronicles 19:4 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֧ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Chronicles 12 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:8 לִ/כְר֖וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with your servants,
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 לְֽ/כֹרְתֵ֣י prep + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
- 2 Chronicles 2:16 נִכְרֹ֨ת Qal impf 1cp and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 5:10 כָּרַ֤ת Qal pf 3ms There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put [there] at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
- 2 Chronicles 6:11 כָּרַ֖ת Qal pf 3ms There have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 7:18 כָּרַ֗תִּי יִכָּרֵ֤ת Qal pf 1cs Niphal impf 3ms then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֤ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 21:7 כָּרַ֖ת Qal pf 3ms However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
- 2 Chronicles 23:3 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֨ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.
- 2 Chronicles 23:16 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֤ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
- 2 Chronicles 29:10 לִ/כְר֣וֹת prep + Qal inf.cs Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
- 2 Chronicles 34:31 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֣ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 9:8 וְ/כָר֨וֹת conj + Qal inf.abs and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
- Nehemiah 9:38 כֹּרְתִ֥ים Qal ptcp.act mp Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.
Job 2 verses
Psalms 4 verses
- Psalms 50:5 כֹּרְתֵ֖י Qal ptcp.act mp cs "Gather my saints together to me, Those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
- Psalms 83:5 יִכְרֹֽתוּ Qal impf 3mp For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
- Psalms 89:3 כָּרַ֣תִּֽי Qal pf 1cs "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
- Psalms 105:9 כָּ֭רַת Qal pf 3ms The covenant which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
Isaiah 8 verses
- Isaiah 14:8 הַ/כֹּרֵ֖ת ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us.
- Isaiah 18:5 וְ/כָרַ֤ת conj + Qal pf 3ms For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
- Isaiah 28:15 כָּרַ֤תְנֽוּ Qal pf 1cp Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
- Isaiah 37:24 וְ/אֶכְרֹ֞ת conj + Qal impf 1cs By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
- Isaiah 44:14 לִ/כְרָת prep + Qal inf.cs He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
- Isaiah 55:3 וְ/אֶכְרְתָ֤ה conj + Qal coh 1cs Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Isaiah 57:8 וַ/תִּכְרָת conj + Qal wimpf 2fs Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.
- Isaiah 61:8 אֶכְר֥וֹת Qal impf 1cs For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jeremiah 15 verses
- Jeremiah 6:6 כִּרְת֣וּ Qal impv 2mp For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
- Jeremiah 10:3 כְּרָת֔/וֹ Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
- Jeremiah 11:10 כָּרַ֖תִּי Qal pf 1cs They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
- Jeremiah 11:19 וְ/נִכְרְתֶ֨/נּוּ֙ conj + Qal coh 1cp + sfx pers 3ms But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Jeremiah 22:7 וְ/כָֽרְתוּ֙ conj + Qal wpf 3cp I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
- Jeremiah 31:31 וְ/כָרַתִּ֗י conj + Qal wpf 1cs Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
- Jeremiah 31:32 כָּרַ֨תִּי֙ Qal pf 1cs not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 31:33 אֶכְרֹת֩ Qal impf 1cs But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Jeremiah 32:40 וְ/כָרַתִּ֤י conj + Qal wpf 1cs and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
- Jeremiah 34:8 כְּרֹת֩ Qal inf.cs The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
- Jeremiah 34:13 כָּרַ֤תִּֽי Qal pf 1cs Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
- Jeremiah 34:15 וַ/תִּכְרְת֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 2mp You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
- Jeremiah 34:18 כָּרְת֖וּ כָּרְת֣וּ Qal pf 3cp Qal pf 3cp I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it;
- Jeremiah 46:23 כָּרְת֤וּ Qal pf 3cp They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
- Jeremiah 50:16 כִּרְת֤וּ Qal impv 2mp Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.
Ezekiel 4 verses
- Ezekiel 17:13 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֥ת conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
- Ezekiel 31:12 וַ/יִּכְרְתֻ֧/הוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp + sfx pers 3ms Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
- Ezekiel 34:25 וְ/כָרַתִּ֤י conj + Qal wpf 1cs I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
- Ezekiel 37:26 וְ/כָרַתִּ֤י conj + Qal wpf 1cs Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 2:18 וְ/כָרַתִּ֨י conj + Qal wpf 1cs In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, And with the birds of the sky, And with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, And will make them lie down safely.
- Hosea 10:4 כָּרֹ֣ת Qal inf.abs They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
- Hosea 12:1 יִכְרֹ֔תוּ Qal impf 3mp Ephraim feeds on wind, And chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, And oil is carried into Egypt.
Micah 1 verse
Haggai 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
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The Hebrew verb כרת centers on the idea of “to cut.” Its English rendering has broadened — “shall be cut off” classically, “cut” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 280 verses in 33 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 9:11. Read the stem: it spans 5 stems, including Qal and Niphal. Dig into 280-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
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About this word
Strong's H3772 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 280
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 280 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #169
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 169 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 280 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 280 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 169 verses · 60%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 67 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 44 verses · 16%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shall be cut off 27×, Cut off 26×, Made 23×
- American Standard Version: Cut off 22×, Shall be cut off 22×, Made 20×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cut off 26×, Made 19×, I will cut off 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cut 35×, Cut off 29×, Shall be cut off 21×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3772 across 288 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 97 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3772 across 288 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 102 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3772 across 283 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 80 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3772 across 337 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 67 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
29 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel) and Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 29 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. כ׳ Gn 15:18 + 19 times; 2 ms. כָּרָ֑תָּ Dt 20:20; 1 s. כָּרַתִּי Ex 34:27 + 15 times; + 8 times Pf.; Impf. יִכְרֹת Jb 40:28 + 21 times; 2 ms. תִּכְרָת־ Is 57:8; 1 s. אֶכְרוֹת Is 61:8; 1 S 11:2; אֶכְרְתָה Is 55:3; 3 mpl. יִכְרֹ֑תוּ Ho 12:2 ψ 83:6; 1 pl. נִכְרְתָה Gn 26:28; 31:44; sf. נִכְרְתֶנּוּ Je 11:19; + 31 times Impf.; Imv. כְּרָת־ 1 S 11:1; כָּרְתָה 2 S 3:12; + 4 times Imv.; Inf. abs. כָּרֹת Ho 10:4; כָּרוֹת Ne 9:8; cstr. כְּרֹת Je 34:8 + 2 times; כְּרָת־ Is 44:14 + 2 times; כְּרוֹת 2 Ch 2:7; 29:10; sf. כָּרְתִי 1 S 24:12; Pt. act. כֹּרֵת Ex 34:10 + 3 times; + 3 times Pt. act.; pass. כָּרוּת Lv 22:24; cstr. כְּרוּת Dt 23:2; pl. כְּרֻת[וֹ]ת 1 K 7:12 + 3 times;— e.g. Genesis 15:18
- 1. cut off:
- a. things: c. acc. foreskin Ex 4:25 (J); privy member Lv 22:24 (H) Dt 23:2; cluster of grapes Nu 13:23, 24 (E); bough of tree Ju 9:48, 49; skirt 1 S 24:5, 6, 12; head of man 1 S 17:51; 31:9 2 S 20:22; garments 2 S 10:4 = 1 Ch 19:4; palms of hands 1 S 5:4; sprigs Is 18:5. e.g. Exodus 4:25
- b. persons, c. acc. pers. מִן loc. Je 11:19; 50:16. e.g. Jeremiah 11:19
- 2. cut down, c. acc. trees Dt 19:5; 20:19, 20; 2 K 19:23 = Is 37:24; Is 44:14 Je 6:6; 10:3; 22:7; 46:23 Ez 31:12; asherim Ex 34:13 (J) Ju 6:25, 26, 30; 1 K 15:13 = 2 Ch 15:16; 2 K 18:4; 23:14. e.g. Deuteronomy 19:5
- 3. hew, timber 1 K 5:20(×2) = 2 Ch 2:7, 15, Is 14:8; כֹּרְתֵי הָעֵצִים hewers of timber 2 Ch 2:9; כְּרֻת(וֹ)ת hewn beams 1 K 6:36; 7:2, 12. e.g. 1 Kings 5:20
- 4. כ׳ בְּרִית cut, or make a covenant (because of the cutting up and distribution of the flesh of the victim for eating in the sacrifice of the covenants, see בְּרִית); הָעֵגֶל אֲשֶׁר כ׳ the calf which they cut Je 34:18 (referring to Gn 15:10); עֲלֵי־זֶבַח ψ 50:5; abs. Gn 21:27, 32; 31:44 (E) 1 S 18:3; 1 K 5:26; Ho 10:4; c. אֶת with Gn 15:18; Ex 34:27; Dt 31:16 (J) Dt 5:3 28:69(×2); 29:13 2 S 3:12, 13, 21; 2 K 17:15, 35, 38; Is 28:15; Je 11:10; 31:31, 32, 33; 34:8, 13; Ez 17:13; Zc 11:10 ψ 105:9 = 1 Ch 16:16; c. עִם Gn 26:28 (J) Ex 24:8 (E) Dt 4:23; 5:2; 9:9; 29:11, 24; 1 K 8:21 = 2 Ch 6:11; 2 Ch 23:3 Ne 9:8; Ho 2:20; 12:2; Jb 40:28; בְּ׳ omitted 1 S 20:16; 22:8; 1 K 8:9 = 2 Ch 5:10; c. לְ Ex 23:32; 34:12, 15; Jos 9:6, 7, 11, 15, 16; 24:25 (JE) Dt 7:2; Ju 2:2; 1 S 11:1; 2 S 5:3; 1 K 20:34 2 K 11:4; 1 Ch 11:3; 2 Ch 21:7; 29:10; Ezr 10:3; Is 55:3; 61:8; Je 32:40; 34:18; Ez 34:25; 37:26; Jb 31:1 ψ 89:4; בְּ׳ omitted 1 S 11:2; 2 Ch 7:18; נֶגֶד Ex 34:10 (J); לִפְנֵי 1 S 23:18; 2 K 23:3 = 2 Ch 34:31 Je 34:15; בֵּין וּבֵין 2 K 11:17; 2 Ch 23:16; c. עַל against, ψ 83:6; אֲמָנָה is used for ברית Ne 10:1; and דָּבָר Hg 2:5. e.g. Jeremiah 34:18
- —וַתִּכְרָת־לָךְ מֵהֶם Is 57:8 is usually rendered as RV made for thee a covenant with them, with ellipsis of בּ׳ as above. But מִן is not used in such a construction. The clause is commonly regarded as corrupt by recent critics. Gr emends עִמָּהֶם for מֵהֶם, this is easiest and gives the usual construction; Du, followed by Buhl, reads וַתִּכְרִי after Ho 3:2. e.g. Isaiah 57:8
Niphal
- Pf. 3 ms. נכרת Jo 1:5 + 5 times; נִכְרָ֑ת Jo 1:16 + 2 times; 3 fs. נִכְרְתָה Gn 17:14 + 16 times; נִכְרָ֑תָה ψ 37:38; 2 ms. נִכְרַתָּ Ob 10; + 8 times Pf.; Impf. יִכָּרֵת Gn 9:11 + 21 times; יִכָּֽרֶת־ Ob 9; 3 mpl. יִכָּֽרְתוּ Zc 13:8; יִכָּרֵת֑וּן Jos 3:13 ψ 37:9; + 9 times Impf.; Inf. הִכָּרֵת Nu 15:31 ψ 37:34.— e.g. Joel 1:5
- 1. be cut off:
- a. of things, froward tongue Pr 10:31; burden from a nail Is 22:25; chariots Zc 9:10; dwelling Zp 3:7. e.g. Proverbs 10:31
- b. of persons, the people of the land by a famine (בְּ) Gn 41:36 (E); all flesh by waters of deluge (מִמֵּי) Gn 9:11 (P); the anointed Dn 9:26; enemies Is 11:13; Mi 5:8; the wicked Is 29:20; Ho 8:4; Na 2:1 ψ 37:9, 22, 28, 34, 38; Pr 2:22; others Ob 9, 10 Zp 1:11; Zc 13:8; 14:2. e.g. Genesis 41:36
- c. in the technical phrases of H and P וְנִכְרְתָה הַנֶּפֶשׁ ההיא that person shall be cut off (by death penalty) מֵעַמֶּיהָ Gn 17:14 Lv 7:20, 21, 25, 27; Nu 9:13; Lv 19:8; מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל Ex 12:15; Nu 19:13; מֵעֲדַת יִשְׂרָאֵל Ex 12:19; מִקֶּרֶב עַמֶּיהָ Ex 31:14; Nu 15:30 (עַמָּהּ); מִלְּפָנַי Lv 22:3; מִתּוֹךְ הַקָּהָל Nu 19:20; similarly with variation of subject Ex 30:33, 38; Lv 17:4, 9; 18:29; 20:18; 23:29, and with omission of word with מִן Lv 17:14; 20:17; Nu 15:31(×2). e.g. Genesis 17:14
- 2. be cut down, a tree Jb 14:7. e.g. Job 14:7
- 3. be chewed between the teeth Nu 11:33 (J). e.g. Numbers 11:33
- 4. be cut off, in a more general sense, fail: of waters Jos 3:13, 16 (JE) 4:7(×2) (D); new wine Jo 1:5; meat v 16; hope Pr 23:18; 24:14; a name Is 48:19; 56:5; Ru 4:10; a sign Is 55:13; faithfulness Je 7:28; לֹא יִכָּרֵת לְ׳ אִישׁ there shall not fail thee a man 1 K 2:4; 8:25 = 2 Ch 6:16; 1 K 9:5 = 2 Ch 7:18; Je 33:17; 18; 35:19; לא יכרת מן there shall not fail of Jos 9:23 (J) 2 S 3:29. e.g. Joshua 3:13
Pual
- Pf. כָּרַּת Ez 16:4; 3 fs. כֹּרָ֑תָה Ju 6:28;— e.g. Ezekiel 16:4
- 1. be cut off, navel string Ez 16:4. e.g. Ezekiel 16:4
- 2. be cut down, Asherah Ju 6:28. e.g. Judges 6:28
Hiphil
- Pf. הִכְרִית 1 S 28:9; 1 K 11:16; 3 fs. הִכְרִיתָה Lv 26:22; 1 s. הִכְרַתִּי Jos 23:4 + 32 times; + 4 times Pf.; Impf. יַכְרִית Dt 12:29 + 2 times; juss. יַכְרֵת ψ 12:4 + 4 times; 1 s. וָֽאַכְרִ֫תָה 2 S 7:9; 1 pl. sf. וְנַכְרִיתֶנָּה Je 48:2; + 9 times Impf.; Inf. הַכְרִית Je 44:8 + 15 times; הַכְרִת 1 S 20:15; + sf. 2 times— e.g. 1 Samuel 28:9
- 1. cut off, flattering lips ψ 12:4. e.g. Psalms 12:4
- 2. cut off, destroy the life of:
- a. animals c. acc., cattle Lv 26:22 (H); c. acc. and מִן frogs Ex 8:5 (J); horses Mi 5:9; Zc 9:10. e.g. Leviticus 26:22
- b. of men abs. ψ 109:13, by men, c. acc. enemies Ju 4:24; 1 S 24:22; 1 K 11:16; 14:14; 18:4; 2 Ch 22:7; Is 10:7; Ez 17:17 Ob 14; c. acc. and מִן enemies Jos 11:21; Je 48:2; the wicked ψ 101:8; a clan Nu 4:18 (P); young men by death Je 9:20; people by the sword Na 3:15; necromancers 1 S 28:9; the name Jos 7:9. e.g. Psalms 109:13
- c. of men, by God c. acc. (הַ)גּוֹיִם Dt 19:1; Jos 23:4 (D) Zp 3:6; various persons and things Is 48:9; Je 44:11; 51:62 Ez 25:16; 30:15; Zc 9:6; c. acc. and מִן Ez 25:7 Am 1:5, 8; 2:3; מֵאֶרֶץ Na 2:14 ψ 34:17 = 109:15; מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל Is 9:13; מִיַּד Mi 5:11; מִפָּנֶיךָ Dt 12:29; 2 S 7:9 = 1 Ch 17:8; מֵעַל פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה 1 S 20:15; 1 K 9:7; Zp 1:3; מִקֶּרֶב עַמּוֹ Lv 17:10; 20:3, 5, 6 (H); מִתּוֹךְ עַמִּי Ez 14:8; Ez says also הכ׳ מִן … אָדָם וּבְהֵמָה 14:13, 17, 19, 21; 25:13; 29:8; צדיק ורשׁע 21:8, 9; עבר ושׁב 35:7; c. acc. and לְ, cut off, to, or from Is 14:22; Je 44:7, 8; 47:4; כ׳ לְ׳ מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר 1 K 14:10; 21:21; 2 K 9:8; כ׳ ל׳ מעם מזבח 1 S 2:33; יַכְרֵת י׳ לָאִישׁ מֵאָֽהֳלֵי יַעֲקֹב Mal 2:12 may Yahweh cut off to the man—from the tents of Jacob. e.g. Deuteronomy 19:1
- 3. cut down, destroy, cities Mi 5:10, sun-pillars Lv 26:30 (H); and other things used in idolatry Na 1:14; Zp 1:4; מן הארץ Zc 13:2; מִקֶּרֶב Mi 5:12. e.g. Micah 5:10
- 4. take away, חֶסֶד מֵעִם kindness from 1 S 20:15. e.g. 1 Samuel 20:15
- 5. permit to perish, מֵהַבְּהֵמָה (some) of the cattle 1 K 18:5. e.g. 1 Kings 18:5
Hophal
- Pf. הָכְרַת מִנְחָה וָנֶסֶךְ מִבֵּית י׳ Jo 1:9. e.g. Joel 1:9
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. cut off, cut down (NH id.; Assyrian karâtu, ii. hew off Dl HWB 357);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כְּרֵת
- , v. כְּרֵית
כָּרַת
- 1. to cut. Num. R. s. 16 ונקרא אשכול … לִכְרוֹת וכ׳ and he (Abraham’s ally) was named Eshkol (Cluster), on account of the cluster of grapes which the Israelites were destined to cut in his home.—Esp. to cut genitals, mutilate. Bekh. 33ᵇ נותק אחר כּוֹרֵת, v. נָתַק.—Part. pass. כָּרוּת. Ib.; a. fr.—כְּ׳ שפכה one that is mutilated at his membrum, v. שָׁפַךְ. Tosef. Yeb. XI, 2. Yeb. VIII, 2; a. fr.
- 2. [to draw a circle, place outside, cmp. meanings of חרם, ברי,] to cut off, excommunicate, v. כָּרֵת. Y. Bicc. II, beg. 64ᶜ; Y. Snh. XI, 30ᵇ צא … עונשין וכוֹרְתִים deduct twenty years up to which age the divine court neither punishes nor decrees excision.
- 3. to separate, divorce; to make final. Gitt. 21ᵇ; Succ. 24ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XXIV, 3) ספר כּוֹרְתָהּ וכ׳ the delivery of the deed divorces her and nothing else does. Ib. דבר הכּוֹרֵת בינו לבינה something (a condition) which (if fulfilled) severs definitely the connection between him and her (e.g. a condition that she will drink no wine for the next thirty days, after the lapse of which time the letter of divorce takes its effect retroactively, opp. to a condition that she will abstain from wine all the rest of her life in which case the letter of divorce cannot take effect).—Part. pass. כָּרוּת definite. Y. Gitt. VII, 48ᵈ כגט כ׳ הוא it is like a final divorce (taking effect immediately); Y. B. Bath. VIII, 16ᶜ top כ׳ הוא. Y. Gitt. III, 44ᵈ top; IX, 50ᵇ bot. זה כ׳ לשמה ווה כ׳ לשמה (not זו) this letter was definitely made out for this woman, and so was the other for the other woman. Ib. III, beg. 44ᶜ אלא שלא הי׳ לה כ׳ … ראשונה (strike out לה); a. fr.—3) to decide, make final. Ber. 4ᵃ; Snh. 16ᵇ (ref. to כְּרֵתִי as a symbolical name for the Urim and Tummim, or for the Sanhedrin) שכּוֹרְתִים את דבריהם they give definite and precise decisions; Midr. Till. to Ps. III כּוֹרְתֵי כריתות, v. כְּרִיתָה; a. e.—כ׳ בְּרִית (v. בְּרִית) to covenant, make a firm promise. Gen. R. s. 44 כָּרַתָּ ב׳ עם וכ׳ thou hast promised to Noah that thou wilt not destroy his descendants; Yalk. Gen. 76 כָּרַתָּה.—Part. pass. כָּרוּת, f. כְּרוּתָה. M. Kat. 18ᵃ, a. fr. ברית כ׳ לשפתים, v. בְּרִית. R. Hash. 17ᵇ ב׳ כ׳ לי"ג מדזת וכ׳ there is a solemn insurance given that the invocation of the thirteen divine attributes (Ex. XXXIV, 6, sq.) will never be without effect (ref. to Ex. XXXIV, 10).—Trnsf. ב׳ כ׳ it is a necessity, unavoidable. Nidd. 58ᵇ ב׳ כ׳ לו שכל וכ׳ whoever crushes it cannot help smelling it. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:3
- 1. to be cut, mutilated. Yeb. VIII, 2 (expl. כרות שפכה, Deut. XXIII, 2) כל שנ׳ הגיד when the membrum is mutilated. Ib. 75ᵇ נִכְרְתוּ ביצים when the testicles are cut out; a. fr.—2) to be covenanted. Sot. 37ᵇ שלא נִכְרְתוּ עליה וכ׳ upon which were not closed forty eight covenants; Tosef. ib. VIII, 11; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 23:2
- 3. to be cut off, destroyed. Y. Peah I, 15ᵈ bot. (ref. to Num. XV, 31) מלמד שהנפש נִכְרָתָה ועונה בה which intimates that (the idolater’s) soul is cut off (through premature death, כָּרֵת), while her guilt remains with her (unexpiated by death); Snh. 64ᵇ (ref. to the emphasized expression הכרת תכ׳, Num. l. c.) הִכָּרֵת בעו"הז וכ׳ hiccareth refers to this world &c.; a. fr.—Verbal noun הִיכָּרֵת, v. כָּרֵת. e.g. Numbers 15:31
- to destroy, exterminate. Tanḥ. R’eh 7 והַכְרִיתֵם and exterminate them. Ib. כשיַכְרִית וכ׳ when the Lord … shall have destroyed …, you will enter. Tosef. Snh. IV, 5 להַכְרִית זרעו וכ׳ to exterminate the seed of Amalek; a. fr.
- to doom to destruction. Arakh. 15ᵇ שכבר כֵּרְתוֹ וכ׳ for David has doomed him &c. (ref. to Ps. XII, 4); Yalk. Lev. 559. e.g. Psalms 12:4
כְּרַת
- , esp. to separate, divorce. Gitt. 21ᵇ, a. fr. עידי מסירה כַּרְתֵי it is the witnesses of delivery (in whose presence the deed of divorce is handed to the wife) that effect the divorce (and the signature of the witnesses is unessential); opp. to עידי חתימה כרתי it is the signing witnesses &c.—Imper. כְּרוֹת (only in) כ׳ גיטא make the divorce final, definite (v. preced.). Ib. 9ᵃ היינו טעמא משום דלאו כ׳ ג׳ היא the reason (that the manumission of the slave is not lawful) is because the form was not in compliance with the rule, ‘make the divorce definite’; B. Bath. 150ᵇ
כָּרֵת
- (= הִכָּרֵת, v. כָּרַתNif.) excommunication, extermination; (in Talm. law) divine punishment through premature or sudden death, opp. to מיתה בידי אדם capital punishment. Snh. 60ᵇ זובח … כ׳ הוא is not slaughtering consecrated animals outside of the Temple punishable with extinction?, opp. קטלא death by execution. M. Kat. 28ᵃ מת בחמשים שנה זו היא מיתת כ׳ if one dies at the age of fifty, that is death of divine visitation; Y. Bicc. II, beg. 64ᶜ בהִיכָּרֵת; Treat. S’maḥ. III, 8 בהִכָּרֵת. Ib. 10 וכי מה מודיענו שמיתתם בהכרת what is there to indicate that they died by divine visitation?; Y. l. c. 64ᵈ top שהוא בהיכרת.—M. Kat. l. c. נפקי לי מכ׳ I have escaped the punishment of kareth (being sixty years old). Ib. כ׳ דשני the kareth of years, premature death; כ׳ דיומי the k. of days, sudden death. Ḥull. 31ᵃ עון כ׳ a transgression punishable with k., opp. איסור מיתה. Macc. III, 15 (23ᵃ) נפטרו מידי כְּרֵיתָן Ms. M. (ed. ידי כְּרִיתָתָם) are released from k. (which would otherwise await them). Ib. 13ᵇ ולמה יצאת כ׳ באחותו why is the punishment of k. specifically mentioned with reference to incest with a sister (Lev. XX, 17, being included in Lev. XVIII, 29)?—Gen. R. s. 28 (ref. to כְּרֵתִים, Zeph. II, 5, v. Targ. a. l.) גוי שהוא ראוי כ׳ a nation deserving extermination; (Yalk. Zeph. 567 ראוי לִיכָּרֵת); a. v. fr.—Pl. כְּרִיתוֹת (fr. כְּרִיתָה). Ker. I, 1 שלשים ושש כ׳ בתורה there are thirty six transgressions mentioned in the Torah as (eventually) punishable with kareth. Macc. III, 15, a. fr. חייבי כ׳ those on whose transgressions the penalty of k. is pronounced; a. fr.—K’rithoth, a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud Babli, of the Order of Kodashim. e.g. Leviticus 20:17
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Forms in the corpus
The 195 distinct written forms H3772 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 135 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 262 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 280 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 9:11
- Exodus 4:25
- Leviticus 7:20
- Numbers 4:18
- Deuteronomy 4:23
- Joshua 3:13
- Judges 2:2
- Ruth 4:10
- 1 Samuel 2:33
- 2 Samuel 3:12
- 1 Kings 2:4
- 2 Kings 9:8
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
