Strong H3772H3772Hכָּרַת

to cut: make(covenant)

One of the 4 senses of Strong H3772

Transliteration
kârath
Pronunciation
kaw-rath'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

: make(covenant)
1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cut off
1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead
1a2) to cut down
1a3) to hew
1a4) to cut or make a covenant
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be cut off
1b2) to be cut down
1b3) to be chewed
1b4) to be cut off, fail
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to be cut off
1c2) to be cut down
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cut off
1d2) to cut off, destroy
1d3) to cut down, destroy
1d4) to take away
1d5) to permit to perish
1e) (Hophal) cut off

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

Strong H3772H appears in 87 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • make79
  • made4
  • be1
  • covenant1
  • maketh1
  • thee1

First verses

  1. 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:
  2. Genesis 21:27
    And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
  3. 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.
  4. 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;
  5. 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.
  6. Exodus 23:32
    Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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:
  10. Exodus 34:15
    Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
  11. Exodus 34:27
    And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
  12. Deuteronomy 4:23
    Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
  13. Deuteronomy 5:2
    The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
  14. Deuteronomy 5:3
    The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
  15. Deuteronomy 7:2
    And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
  16. Deuteronomy 9:9
    When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
  17. Deuteronomy 29:1
    These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
  18. Deuteronomy 29:12
    That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:
  19. Deuteronomy 29:14
    Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
  20. Deuteronomy 29:25
    Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
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