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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - כָּרַת

כָּרַת

H3772

Transliteration: kârath

Pronunciation: kaw-rath'

Definition: be chewed


Original: כּרת

Transliteration: kârath

Phonetic: kaw-rath'

BDB Definition:

  1. to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant
    1. (Qal)
      1. to cut off
        1. to cut off a body part, behead
      2. to cut down
      3. to hew
      4. to cut or make a covenant
    2. (Niphal)
      1. to be cut off
      2. to be cut down
      3. to be chewed
      4. to be cut off, fail
    3. (Pual)
      1. to be cut off
      2. to be cut down
    4. (Hiphil)
      1. to cut off
      2. to cut off, destroy
      3. to cut down, destroy
      4. to take away
      5. to permit to perish
    5. (Hophal) cut off

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 1048

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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