גָּזַר
gâzar · gaw-zar'
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
- to cut down or off
- (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest
To carry, to lift up that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גָּזַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
13 occurrences · 13 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- for he was cut off2 · 15%
- divide1 · 8%
- let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide1 · 8%
- they cut down1 · 8%
- and what was decreed1 · 8%
- thou shalt also decree1 · 8%
- no more: and they are cut off1 · 8%
- to him which divided1 · 8%
- and he shall snatch1 · 8%
- i am cut off1 · 8%
- we are cut off1 · 8%
- shall be cut off1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.