Hebrew verb · H1504
גָּזַר
gazargaw-zar'
to cut
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâzar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1504is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1504
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
The King James renders it: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gazar is rendered "to cut". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 3:25and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
1 Kings 3:25גִּזְר֛וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cut2
- he was cut off2
- and it devoured1
- and they cut down1
- and you may decide1
- I have been cut off1
- it had been decreed1
- someone cuts off1
- they are cut off1
- to cut1
- we have been cut off1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נִגְזַ֖ר2
- גָּזַ֤ר1
- גִּזְר֛וּ1
- גְּזֹֽרוּ׃1
- וַיִּגְזֹ֤ר1
- וַֽיִּגְזְר֖וּ1
- וְֽתִגְזַר־1
- לְגֹזֵ֣ר1
- נִגְזַר֙1
- נִגְזָֽרוּ׃1
- נִגְזַ֥רְנוּ1
- נִגְזָֽרְתִּי׃ ס1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVNp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVqv2mp
- HC/Vqu2ms1HC/Vqu2ms
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Vqrmsc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HVNp1cp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
1 Kings
two uses
and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
- גִּזְר֛וּgizruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: cut
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!”
- גְּזֹֽרוּ׃gezoruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: cut
2 Kings
one use
So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.
- וַֽיִּגְזְר֖וּvaiyigzeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they cut down
2 Chronicles
one use
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 to govern the people of the land.
- נִגְזַ֖רnigzarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was cut off
Esther
one use
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.
- נִגְזַ֖רnigzarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had been decreed
Job
one use
Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
- וְֽתִגְזַר־vetigzar-HC/Vqu2mstagged: and you may decide
Psalms
two uses
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.
- נִגְזָֽרוּ׃nigzaruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are cut off
He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
- לְגֹזֵ֣רlegozerpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to cut
Isaiah
two uses
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.
- וַיִּגְזֹ֤רvaiyigzorHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it devoured
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.
- נִגְזַר֙nigzarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was cut off
Lamentations
one use
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
- נִגְזָֽרְתִּי׃ סnigzaretiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been cut off
Ezekiel
one use
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- נִגְזַ֥רְנוּnigzarnuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have been cut off
Habakkuk
one use
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- גָּזַ֤רgazarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone cuts off
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.