Strong's Hebrew · H3772
H3772 kârath
כָּרַת
kaw-rath'
to cut
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kârath appears 287 times in Scripture, including Genesis 9:11 and Exodus 4:25. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
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)
In the King James Version
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.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 287 times in Scripture
“But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.”
“And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.””
“Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.”
“After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.”
“On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—”
“But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.””
“This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.””
“So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.”
“Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.””
““We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
