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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. 1 Samuel 20:16וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת · made a covenant
    So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”
  2. 1 Samuel 22:8בִּכְרָת־ · had made a covenant
    Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”
  3. 1 Samuel 23:18וַיִּכְרְת֧וּ · of them made
    So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.
  4. 1 Samuel 24:4וַיִּכְרֹ֛ת · cut off
    So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
  5. 1 Samuel 24:5כָּרַ֔ת · he had cut off
    Afterward, David’s conscience was stricken because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.
  6. 1 Samuel 24:11בְּכָרְתִי֩ · off
    See, my father, look at the corner of your robe in my hand. For I cut it off, but I did not kill you. Know and see that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands. I have not sinned against you, even though you are hunting me down to take my life.
  7. 1 Samuel 24:21תַּכְרִ֥ית · cut off
    So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”
  8. 1 Samuel 28:9הִכְרִ֛ית · he has killed
    But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”
  9. 1 Samuel 31:9וַֽיִּכְרְתוּ֙ · They cut off
    They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
  10. 2 Samuel 3:12כָּרְתָ֤ה · Make
    Then Abner sent messengers on his behalf to say to David, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and surely my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”
  11. 2 Samuel 3:13אֶכְרֹ֥ת · will make
    “Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
  12. 2 Samuel 3:21וְיִכְרְת֤וּ · that they may make
    Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once, and I will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David dismissed Abner, and he went in peace.
  13. 2 Samuel 3:29יִכָּרֵ֣ת · be without
    May it whirl over the head of Joab and over the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
  14. 2 Samuel 5:3וַיִּכְרֹ֣ת · made
    So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.
  15. 2 Samuel 7:9וָאַכְרִ֥תָה · and I have cut off
    I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.
  16. 2 Samuel 10:4וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת · cut off
    So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
  17. 2 Samuel 20:22וַֽיִּכְרְת֞וּ · and they cut off
    Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
  18. 1 Kings 2:4יִכָּרֵ֤ת · fail
    …and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
  19. 1 Kings 5:6וְיִכְרְתוּ־ · be cut down; לִכְרָת־ · in logging
    Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”
  20. 1 Kings 5:12וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ · of them made
    And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
  21. 1 Kings 8:9כָּרַ֤ת · had made a covenant
    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
  22. 1 Kings 8:21כָּרַת֙ · He made
    And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
  23. 1 Kings 8:25יִכָּרֵ֨ת · fail
    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
  24. 1 Kings 9:5יִכָּרֵ֤ת · fail
    …then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
  25. 1 Kings 9:7וְהִכְרַתִּ֣י · then I will cut off
    …then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
  26. 1 Kings 11:16הִכְרִ֥ית · he had killed
    Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.
  27. 1 Kings 14:10וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י · I will cut off
    Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
  28. 1 Kings 14:14יַכְרִ֛ית · will cut off
    Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today!
  29. 1 Kings 15:13וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת · chopped down
    He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
  30. 1 Kings 18:4בְּהַכְרִ֣ית · had slaughtered
    …for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
  31. 1 Kings 18:5נַכְרִ֖ית · have to destroy
    Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
  32. 1 Kings 20:34וַיִּכְרָת־ · So he made
    Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
  33. 1 Kings 21:21וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י · I will cut off
    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
  34. 2 Kings 9:8וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י · and I will cut off
    The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
  35. 2 Kings 11:4וַיִּכְרֹת֩ · he made
    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son
  36. 2 Kings 11:17וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת · made
    Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
  37. 2 Kings 17:15כָּרַ֣ת · He had made
    They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
  38. 2 Kings 17:35וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת · had made
    For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.
  39. 2 Kings 17:38כָּרַ֥תִּי · I have made
    Do not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,
  40. 2 Kings 18:4וְכָרַ֖ת · and cut down
    He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
  41. 2 Kings 19:23וְאֶכְרֹ֞ת · I have cut down
    Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
  42. 2 Kings 23:3וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת · and made
    So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
  43. 2 Kings 23:14וַיִּכְרֹ֖ת · cut down
    He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
  44. 1 Chronicles 11:3וַיִּכְרֹת֩ · made
    So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where David made a covenant with them before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.
  45. 1 Chronicles 16:16כָּרַת֙ · He made
    …the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
  46. 1 Chronicles 17:8וָאַכְרִ֥ית · and I have cut off
    I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.
  47. 1 Chronicles 19:4וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת · cut off
    So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
  48. 2 Chronicles 2:8לִכְר֖וֹת · to cut
    Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours
  49. 2 Chronicles 2:10לְֽכֹרְתֵ֣י׀
    I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”