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Strong H37724 sensesכָּרַת

to cut: eliminate · to cut: make(covenant) · to cut: cut · to cut: lack

Transliteration
kârath
Pronunciation
kaw-rath'

The 4 senses of Strong H3772

The lexicon tells 4 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H3772 appears in 280 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to cut: eliminateH3772I: eliminate/destroy129 verses · 29 books
  2. to cut: make(covenant)H3772H: make(covenant)87 verses · 21 books
  3. to cut: cutH3772G: cut/fell50 verses · 19 books
  4. to cut: lackH3772J: lack10 verses · 4 books

General definition

A primitive root; to cut ({off} down or asunder); by implication to destroy or consume; specifically to covenant (that {is} make an alliance or {bargain} originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): - be {chewed} be con- [feder-] {ate} {covenant} cut ({down} {off}) {destroy} {fail} {feller} be {freed} hew ({down}) make a league ({[covenant]}) X {lose} {perish} X {utterly} X want.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • cut172
  • make79
  • fail6
  • destroy4
  • made4
  • want3
  • covenant2
  • be1
  • chew1
  • cutteth1
  • feller1
  • free1

First verses

  1. Genesis 9:11
    And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
  2. Genesis 15:18
    In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
  3. Genesis 17:14
    And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
  4. Genesis 21:27
    And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
  5. Genesis 21:32
    Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
  6. Genesis 26:28
    And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
  7. Genesis 31:44
    Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
  8. Genesis 41:36
    And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
  9. Exodus 4:25
    Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
  10. Exodus 8:9
    And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?
  11. Exodus 12:15
    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
  12. Exodus 12:19
    Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
  13. Exodus 23:32
    Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
  14. Exodus 24:8
    And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
  15. Exodus 30:33
    Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
  16. Exodus 30:38
    Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
  17. Exodus 31:14
    Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
  18. Exodus 34:10
    And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
  19. Exodus 34:12
    Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
  20. Exodus 34:13
    But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: