Strong's Concordance H3772

Original Word: כָּרַת
Transliteration: kârath
Phonetic Spelling: kaw-rath'
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); be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), × lose, perish, × utterly, × want.

Usages throughout the bible

1 Samuel 24:5 - And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off H3772 Saul's skirt.

1 Samuel 24:11 - Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off H3772 the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

1 Samuel 24:21 - Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off H3772 my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.

1 Samuel 28:9 - And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off H3772 those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

1 Samuel 31:9 - And they cut off H3772 his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

2 Samuel 3:12 - And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make H3772 thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.

2 Samuel 3:13 - And he said, Well; I will make H3772 a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.

2 Samuel 3:21 - And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make H3772 a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

2 Samuel 3:29 - Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail H3772 from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

2 Samuel 5:3 - So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made H3772 a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.

2 Samuel 7:9 - And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off H3772 all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

2 Samuel 10:4 - Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off H3772 their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

2 Samuel 20:22 - Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off H3772 the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

1 Kings 2:4 - That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail H3772 thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

1 Kings 5:6 - Now therefore command thou that they hew H3772 me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew H3772 timber like unto the Sidonians.

1 Kings 5:12 - And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made H3772 a league together.

1 Kings 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made H3772 a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:21 - And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made H3772 with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:25 - Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail H3772 thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

1 Kings 9:5 - Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail H3772 thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

1 Kings 9:7 - Then will I cut off H3772 Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

1 Kings 11:16 - (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off H3772 every male in Edom:)

1 Kings 14:10 - Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off H3772 from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

1 Kings 14:14 - Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off H3772 the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

1 Kings 15:13 - And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed H3772 her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

1 Kings 18:4 - For it was so, when Jezebel cut off H3772 the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18:5 - And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose H3772 not all the beasts.

1 Kings 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made H3772 a covenant with him, and sent him away.

1 Kings 21:21 - Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off H3772 from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

2 Kings 9:8 - For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off H3772 from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:

2 Kings 11:4 - And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made H3772 a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

2 Kings 11:17 - And Jehoiada made H3772 a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.

2 Kings 17:15 - And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made H3772 with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

2 Kings 17:35 - With whom the LORD had made H3772 a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

2 Kings 17:38 - And the covenant that I have made H3772 with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.

2 Kings 18:4 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down H3772 the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 19:23 - By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down H3772 the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

2 Kings 23:3 - And the king stood by a pillar, and made H3772 a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

2 Kings 23:14 - And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down H3772 the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

1 Chronicles 11:3 - Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made H3772 a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

1 Chronicles 16:16 - Even of the covenant which he made H3772 with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;

1 Chronicles 17:8 - And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off H3772 all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

1 Chronicles 19:4 - Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off H3772 their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut H3772 timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

2 Chronicles 2:10 - And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut H3772 timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

2 Chronicles 2:16 - And we will cut H3772 wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 5:10 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made H3772 a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 6:11 - And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made H3772 with the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:16 - Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail H3772 thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

2 Chronicles 7:18 - Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted H3772 with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail H3772 thee a man to be ruler in Israel.