1. כָּרַת
cut off, cut down
The corpus record — Hebrew
יִכָּרֵ֧ת
karath · vb
cut off, cut down
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 290 · 9.45/10k
Senses
2. כָּרַת
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)
Attestations
- יִכָּרֵ֧ת Genesis 9:11 (BHS)
- כָּרַ֧ת Genesis 15:18 (BHS)
- וְ/נִכְרְתָ֛ה Genesis 17:14 (BHS)
- וַ/יִּכְרְת֥וּ Genesis 21:27 (BHS)
- וַ/יִּכְרְת֥וּ Genesis 21:32 (BHS)
- וְ/נִכְרְתָ֥ה Genesis 26:28 (BHS)
6 of 290 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.