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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. Isaiah 55:3וְאֶכְרְתָ֤ה · I will make
    Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
  2. Isaiah 55:13יִכָּרֵֽת׃ס · to be destroyed
    Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
  3. Isaiah 56:5יִכָּרֵֽת׃ס · be cut off
    I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
  4. Isaiah 57:8וַתִּכְרָת־ · And you have made a pact
    Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.
  5. Isaiah 61:8אֶכְר֥וֹת · and make
    For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
  6. Jeremiah 6:6כִּרְת֣וּ · Cut down
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
  7. Jeremiah 7:28וְנִכְרְתָ֖ה · it has disappeared
    Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  8. Jeremiah 9:21לְהַכְרִ֤ית · to cut off
    For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
  9. Jeremiah 10:3כְּרָת֔וֹ · they cut down
    For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
  10. Jeremiah 11:10כָּרַ֖תִּי · I made
    They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
  11. Jeremiah 11:19וְנִכְרְתֶ֙נּוּ֙ · let us cut him off
    For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
  12. Jeremiah 22:7וְכָֽרְתוּ֙ · and they will cut down
    I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
  13. Jeremiah 31:31וְכָרַתִּ֗י · when I will make
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
  14. Jeremiah 31:32כָּרַ֙תִּי֙ · I made
    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
  15. Jeremiah 31:33אֶכְרֹת֩ · I will make
    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  16. Jeremiah 32:40וְכָרַתִּ֤י · I will make
    I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
  17. Jeremiah 33:17יִכָּרֵ֣ת · lack
    For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
  18. Jeremiah 33:18יִכָּרֵ֥ת · fail
    …nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”
  19. Jeremiah 34:8כְּרֹת֩ · had made
    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
  20. Jeremiah 34:13כָּרַ֤תִּֽי · made
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:
  21. Jeremiah 34:15וַתִּכְרְת֤וּ · You made
    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
  22. Jeremiah 34:18כָּרְת֖וּ · they made; כָּרְת֣וּ · they cut
    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
  23. Jeremiah 35:19יִכָּרֵ֨ת · fail to have
    …this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
  24. Jeremiah 44:7לְהַכְרִ֨ית · by cutting off
    So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
  25. Jeremiah 44:8הַכְרִ֣ית · you will be cut off
    Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.
  26. Jeremiah 44:11וּלְהַכְרִ֖ית · and to cut off
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.
  27. Jeremiah 46:23כָּרְת֤וּ · They will chop down
    They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.
  28. Jeremiah 47:4לְהַכְרִ֤ית · to cut off
    For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
  29. Jeremiah 48:2וְנַכְרִיתֶ֣נָּה · let us cut her off
    There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
  30. Jeremiah 50:16כִּרְת֤וּ · Cut off
    Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
  31. Jeremiah 51:62לְהַכְרִית֔וֹ · to cut off
    …and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
  32. Ezekiel 14:8וְהִכְרַתִּ֖יו · I will cut him off
    I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  33. Ezekiel 14:13וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י · and to cut off
    “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
  34. Ezekiel 14:17וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י · so that I cut off
    Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,
  35. Ezekiel 14:19לְהַכְרִ֥ית · cutting off
    Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
  36. Ezekiel 14:21לְהַכְרִ֥ית · in order to cut off
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
  37. Ezekiel 16:4כָרַּ֣ת · cut
    On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
  38. Ezekiel 17:13וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת · and made
    He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
  39. Ezekiel 17:17לְהַכְרִ֖ית · to destroy
    Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.
  40. Ezekiel 21:3וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י · and cut off
    …and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
  41. Ezekiel 21:4הִכְרַ֥תִּי · I will cut off
    Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.
  42. Ezekiel 25:7וְהִכְרַתִּ֙יךָ֙ · I will cut you off
    …therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
  43. Ezekiel 25:13וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י · and cut off
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
  44. Ezekiel 25:16וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י · and I will cut off
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
  45. Ezekiel 29:8וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י · and cut off
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.
  46. Ezekiel 30:15וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י · and cut off
    I will pour out My wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the crowds of Thebes.
  47. Ezekiel 31:12וַיִּכְרְתֻ֧הוּ · cut it down
    Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
  48. Ezekiel 34:25וְכָרַתִּ֤י · I will make
    I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
  49. Ezekiel 35:7וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י · and will cut off
    I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.