Keraia
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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. 2 Chronicles 2:16נִכְרֹ֨ת · will cut
    We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 5:10כָּרַ֤ת · had made a covenant
    There was nothing in the ark except the two 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 Egypt.
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:11כָּרַ֖ת · He made
    And there I have placed the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:16יִכָּרֵ֨ת · 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 in My law as you have walked before Me.’
  5. 2 Chronicles 7:18כָּרַ֗תִּי · I covenanted; יִכָּרֵ֤ת · fail
    …then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’
  6. 2 Chronicles 15:16וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת · chopped down
    King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
  7. 2 Chronicles 21:7כָּרַ֖ת · He had made
    Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
  8. 2 Chronicles 22:7לְהַכְרִ֖ית · to destroy
    Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
  9. 2 Chronicles 23:3וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת · made
    …the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. “Behold, the king’s son!” said Jehoiada. “He must reign, just as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.
  10. 2 Chronicles 23:16וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת · made
    Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.
  11. 2 Chronicles 29:10לִכְר֣וֹת · to make
    Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.
  12. 2 Chronicles 34:31וַיִּכְרֹ֣ת · 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.
  13. Ezra 10:3נִֽכְרָת־ · let us make
    So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
  14. Nehemiah 9:8וְכָר֨וֹת · and made
    You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
  15. Nehemiah 9:38כֹּרְתִ֥ים · make
    In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
  16. Job 14:7יִ֭כָּרֵת · it is cut down
    For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
  17. Job 31:1כָּרַ֣תִּי · I have made
    “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
  18. Job 41:4הֲיִכְרֹ֣ת · Will he make
    Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
  19. Psalm 12:3יַכְרֵ֣ת · cut off
    May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
  20. Psalm 34:16לְהַכְרִ֖ית · to wipe out
    But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
  21. Psalm 37:9יִכָּרֵת֑וּן · will be cut off
    For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
  22. Psalm 37:22יִכָּרֵֽתוּ׃ · will be destroyed
    Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
  23. Psalm 37:28נִכְרָֽת׃ · will be cut off
    For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
  24. Psalm 37:34בְּהִכָּרֵ֖ת · are cut off
    Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
  25. Psalm 37:38נִכְרָֽתָה׃ · will be cut off
    But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.
  26. Psalm 50:5כֹּרְתֵ֖י · who made
    “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
  27. Psalm 83:5יִכְרֹֽתוּ׃ · they form
    For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—
  28. Psalm 89:3כָּרַ֣תִּֽי · You said, “I have made
    You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
  29. Psalm 101:8לְהַכְרִ֥ית · that I may cut off
    Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
  30. Psalm 105:9כָּ֭רַת · He made
    …the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
  31. Psalm 109:13לְהַכְרִ֑ית · cut off
    May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
  32. Psalm 109:15וְיַכְרֵ֖ת · that He may cut off
    May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
  33. Proverbs 2:22יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ · will be cut off
    …but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
  34. Proverbs 10:31תִּכָּרֵֽת׃ · will be cut out
    The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.
  35. Proverbs 23:18תִכָּרֵֽת׃ · be cut off
    For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
  36. Proverbs 24:14תִכָּרֵֽת׃פ · be cut off
    Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
  37. Isaiah 9:14וַיַּכְרֵ֨ת · will cut off
    So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
  38. Isaiah 10:7וּלְהַכְרִ֥ית · and cut off
    But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
  39. Isaiah 11:13יִכָּרֵ֑תוּ · will be cut off
    Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.
  40. Isaiah 14:8הַכֹּרֵ֖ת · woodcutter
    Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
  41. Isaiah 14:22וְהִכְרַתִּ֨י · I will cut off
    “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
  42. Isaiah 18:5וְכָרַ֤ת · He will cut off
    For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
  43. Isaiah 22:25וְנִכְרַת֙ · will be cut down
    In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
  44. Isaiah 28:15כָּרַ֤תְנֽוּ · We have made
    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
  45. Isaiah 29:20וְנִכְרְת֖וּ · will be cut down
    For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
  46. Isaiah 37:24וְאֶכְרֹ֞ת · 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 heights, the densest of its forests.
  47. Isaiah 44:14לִכְרָת־ · He cuts down
    He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
  48. Isaiah 48:9הַכְרִיתֶֽךָ׃ · be cut off
    For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.
  49. Isaiah 48:19יִכָּרֵ֧ת · be cut off
    Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”