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כָּרַת

ka.ratto cut: cutHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb288 occurrences33 books280 verses

Definition

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)
Traditional renderings: be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), × lose, perish, × utterly, × want.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כָּרַת:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

288 total
  1. Numbers 19:13וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה · must be cut off
    Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
  2. Numbers 19:20וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה · will be cut off
    But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
  3. Deuteronomy 4:23כָּרַ֖ת · He made
    Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
  4. Deuteronomy 5:2כָּרַ֥ת · made
    The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
  5. Deuteronomy 5:3כָּרַ֥ת · make
    He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
  6. Deuteronomy 7:2תִכְרֹ֥ת · Make
    …and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
  7. Deuteronomy 9:9כָּרַ֥ת · made
    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
  8. Deuteronomy 12:29יַכְרִית֩ · cuts off
    When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
  9. Deuteronomy 19:1יַכְרִ֞ית · has cut off
    When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
  10. Deuteronomy 19:5לִכְרֹ֣ת · to chop down
    If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
  11. Deuteronomy 20:19תִכְרֹ֑ת · cut them down
    When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
  12. Deuteronomy 20:20וְכָרָ֑תָּ · [Use them]
    But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
  13. Deuteronomy 23:1וּכְר֥וּת · or severed
    No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
  14. Deuteronomy 29:1לִכְרֹ֛ת · to make; כָּרַ֥ת · He had made
    These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
  15. Deuteronomy 29:12כֹּרֵ֥ת · is making
    …so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
  16. Deuteronomy 29:14כֹּרֵת֙ · am making
    I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
  17. Deuteronomy 29:25כָּרַ֣ת · He made
    And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  18. Deuteronomy 31:16כָּרַ֖תִּי · I have made
    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
  19. Joshua 3:13יִכָּ֣רֵת֔וּן · will be cut off
    When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
  20. Joshua 3:16נִכְרָ֑תוּ · cut off
    …the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
  21. Joshua 4:7נִכְרְת֜וּ · were cut off; נִכְרְת֖וּ · were cut off
    …you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
  22. Joshua 7:9וְהִכְרִ֥יתוּ · and wipe out
    When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”
  23. Joshua 9:6כִּרְתוּ־ · please make
    They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”
  24. Joshua 9:7אֶכְרוֹת · can we make
    But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
  25. Joshua 9:11כִּרְתוּ־ · Please make
    So the elders and inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey; go to meet them and say to them: We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.’
  26. Joshua 9:15וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת
    And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
  27. Joshua 9:16כָּרְת֥וּ · they had made
    Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.
  28. Joshua 9:23יִכָּרֵ֨ת
    Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
  29. Joshua 11:21וַיַּכְרֵ֤ת · to eliminate
    At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.
  30. Joshua 23:4הִכְרַ֔תִּי · I have already cut off
    See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
  31. Joshua 24:25וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת · made
    On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
  32. Judges 2:2תִכְרְת֤וּ · to make
    …and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
  33. Judges 4:24הִכְרִ֔יתוּ · they destroyed
    And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
  34. Judges 6:25תִּכְרֹֽת׃ · and cut down
    On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
  35. Judges 6:26תִּכְרֹֽת׃ · you cut down
    Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
  36. Judges 6:28כֹּרָ֑תָה · cut down
    When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.
  37. Judges 6:30כָרַ֖ת · and cut down
    Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”
  38. Judges 9:48וַיִּכְרֹת֙ · and cut
    …he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
  39. Judges 9:49וַיִּכְרְת֨וּ · cut
    So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
  40. Ruth 4:10יִכָּרֵ֧ת · disappear
    Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
  41. 1 Samuel 2:33אַכְרִ֤ית · cut off
    And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
  42. 1 Samuel 5:4כְּרֻתוֹת֙ · broken off
    But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
  43. 1 Samuel 11:1כְּרָת־ · Make
    Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
  44. 1 Samuel 11:2אֶכְרֹ֣ת · I will make [a treaty]
    But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
  45. 1 Samuel 17:51וַיִּכְרָת־ · and he cut off
    David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
  46. 1 Samuel 18:3וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת · made
    Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
  47. 1 Samuel 20:15תַכְרִ֧ת · cut off; בְּהַכְרִ֤ת · cuts off
    …and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”