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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - גָּזַר

גָּזַר

H1504

Transliteration: gâzar

Pronunciation: gaw-zar'

Definition: cut down


Original: גּזר

Transliteration: gâzar

Phonetic: gaw-zar'

BDB Definition:

  1. to cut, divide, cut down, cut off, cut in two, snatch, decree
    1. (Qal)
      1. to cut in two, divide
      2. to cut down
      3. to cut off, destroy, exterminate
      4. to decree
    2. (Niphal)
      1. to be cut off, separated, excluded
      2. to be destroyed, cut off
      3. to be decreed

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 340

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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