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Word Study · Strong's H3772 · Hebrew

כָּרַת

karath

kaw-rath'

Strong's 1890 spelling: kârath

to cut (off, down or asunder)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

  • 288
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 33 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 196
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 288 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 196

  • וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י12
  • וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה11
  • וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י6
  • וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י4
  • וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת4
  • וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת4
  • יִכָּרֵ֨ת4
  • כָּרַ֥ת4
  • לְהַכְרִ֖ית4
  • וַיִּכְרֹ֧ת3
  • וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת3
  • וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ3

and 184 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 118

  • and I will cut off29
  • it will be cut off21
  • and it will be cut off15
  • and he made14
  • to cut off13
  • he made10
  • and he cut off7
  • I made7
  • and he will be cut off6
  • and I will make6
  • they will be cut off5
  • and he cut down4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 86

  • Hc/Vhq1cs30
  • Hc/Vqw3ms23
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular20
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular18
  • Hc/VNq3fs17
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)14
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular11
  • Hc/Vqw3mp8
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)7
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 2nd person masculine singular7
  • Hc/VNq3ms5
  • Hc/Vqq1cs5
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vhq1cs · 30
  • Hc/Vqw3ms · 23
  • HVNi3ms · 20
  • HVqp3ms · 18
  • Hc/VNq3fs · 17
  • HR/Vhcc · 14
  • HVqp1cs · 11
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 8
  • HR/Vqcc · 7
  • HVqi2ms · 7
  • Hc/VNq3ms · 5
  • Hc/Vqq1cs · 5

All 288, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Jeremiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis8 occurrences
Exodus14 occurrences
Leviticus20 occurrences
Numbers10 occurrences
Deuteronomy17 occurrences
Joshua14 occurrences
Judges8 occurrences
Ruth1 occurrence
1 Samuel17 occurrences
2 Samuel8 occurrences
1 Kings17 occurrences
2 Kings10 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles15 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms14 occurrences
Proverbs4 occurrences
Isaiah18 occurrences
Jeremiah27 occurrences
Ezekiel19 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea4 occurrences
Joel3 occurrences
Amos3 occurrences
Obadiah3 occurrences
Micah5 occurrences
Nahum4 occurrences
Zephaniah5 occurrences
Haggai1 occurrence
Zechariah7 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).