Strong's Hebrew · H1504

גָּזַר

gâzar · gaw-zar'

cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.

Definition

to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 13 times in Scripture

Psalms 136:13

He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.

2 Kings 6:4

So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.

Job 22:28

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Psalms 88:5

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

1 Kings 3:25

and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

Isaiah 53:8

By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

Esther 2:1

Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.

2 Chronicles 26:21

So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.

Isaiah 9:20

They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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