כָּרַת
kârath · kaw-rath'
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: 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.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the head, the highest › the mark, the covenant sign
The open hand that covers of the head, the highest of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כָּרַת 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
288 occurrences · 288 OT · 0 NT · 196 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall be cut off22 · 16%
- made17 · 13%
- and i will cut off12 · 9%
- and cut off9 · 7%
- to cut off8 · 6%
- and cut down6 · 4%
- there shall not fail5 · 4%
- cut off5 · 4%
- and made5 · 4%
- which he made4 · 3%
- be cut off4 · 3%
- and will cut off4 · 3%
- and will cut him off4 · 3%
- and i will make4 · 3%
- shall not be cut off3 · 2%
- are cut off3 · 2%
- were cut off3 · 2%
- and have cut off2 · 1%
- and they cut off2 · 1%
- to make2 · 1%
- hath cut off2 · 1%
- shall cut off2 · 1%
- cut down2 · 1%
- it shall be cut off2 · 1%
- i have made2 · 1%
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.