125 occurrences

'Cut' in the Bible

So Abram brought him all these animals and cut each of them in half, down the middle, placing the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his male servants with him, along with his son Isaac. He cut the wood for the burnt offering and set out to go to the place about which God had spoken to him.

Meanwhile, Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flock. Jacob took branches from white poplar trees, freshly cut almond trees, and some other trees, stripped off their bark to make white streaks, and uncovered the white part inside the branches.

If you make an altar of stone for me, you must not build it of cut stones, because if you strike it with your chisel, you will profane it.

You are to cut the ram into pieces, wash its entrails and legs, put them on the altar along with the pieces and its head,

The LORD told Moses, "Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I'll write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets that you broke.

Rather, you are to tear down their altars, you are to smash their sacred pillars, and you are to cut down their sacred poles

to cut stones for setting, to carve wood, and to engage in all kinds of artistic work.

"Aaron's sons, the priests, are to bring the blood and sprinkle it around the altar that stands at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. He is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

He is to cut up its head and fat into separate pieces arrange them in rows on the wood over the fire that burns on the altar,

As to the ram, he cut it into parts at the joints, burned the head, the internal organs, and the fat,

You are not to bring to the LORD an animal that has been emasculated, crushed, torn, or cut apart. You are not to practice this in your land.

I'll destroy your high places and cut down your sun pillars. Then I'll cast your dead bodies on top of the bodies of your idols. I'll loathe you.

Soon they arrived in the valley of Eshcol, where they cut a single branch of grapes and carried it on a pole between two men, along with some pomegranates and figs.

This is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their ritual pillars, and burn their carved idols in fire,

Tear down their altars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn them. Cut down the carved images of their gods to erase their memory from that place."

For instance, he may have accompanied his friend to go to a forest to cut trees. Then he swung his axe to cut some wood, but the ax head flew off the handle and hit his friend, so that he died. The killer may flee to one of these cities to live.

"When you attack a city and have to fight against it for many days, don't destroy its trees by cutting them down with an ax. You may eat from them, but you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human beings, that you would come and attack them?

However, you may cut down the trees whose fruit you know isn't edible, in order to build siege works against the city that waged war with you, until it falls."

Later that very night, the LORD told Gideon, "Take the bull that belongs to your father, along with a second bull that's seven years old. Then tear down the altar to Baal that your father owns, cut down the Asherah that's beside it,

So the leading men of the city ordered Joash, "Bring us that son of yours. He's going to die, because he tore down the altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah that stood beside it!"

So he went up to Mount Zalmon, accompanied by his entire army. Abimelech had an axe in his hand, so he cut down a branch from a tree, lifted it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he told the army that had accompanied him, "You've seen what I just did. Hurry up! Do the same thing!"

Then his entire army also cut down a branch for each soldier, followed Abimelech to the inner chamber, and set fire to it while they were inside. As a result, all the men of the tower of Shechem died, including about a thousand men and women.

But there was no response. So he placed her on the donkey, mounted his own animal, and went home. When he arrived home, he grabbed a knife, took hold of his mistress, cut her apart limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her remains throughout the land of Israel.

So I grabbed my mistress, cut her in pieces, and sent her remains throughout the territory of Israel's inheritance, because they've committed a vile, stupid outrage in Israel.

After she had left to glean, Boaz commanded his servants, "Allow her to glean also among the cut sheaves, and don't taunt her.

The time is coming when I'll cut away at your family and your ancestor's family until there are no old men left in your family.

He took a yoke of oxen, cut them in pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers through all the territory of Israel: "This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not come out and join Saul and Samuel!" The fear of the LORD fell on the people and they came out as one man.

Samuel said, "Just as your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women." Then Samuel cut Agag into pieces in the LORD's presence in Gilgal.

Then David called out to one of his young men and ordered him, "Go up to him and cut him down!" So he attacked him and killed him.

So Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron to ask him, "Who owns this land? Cut a deal with me, and look! I'll lend my hand in bringing all of Israel over to you!"

David replied, "Sounds good to me! I'll cut a deal with you under one condition: you're not to show yourself in my presence unless you bring Saul's daughter with you when you come to see me."

When you hear the sound of marching coming from the tops of the balsam trees, then be sure to act quickly, since the LORD will have gone out ahead of you to cut down the Philistine army."

Whenever he cut his hair he cut it at the end of every year, because it grew thick on his head, which is why he cut it his hair weighed in at 200 shekels measured by the royal standard.

The woman whose child was still alive cried out to the king, because her heart yearned for her son. "Oh no, your majesty!" she said. "Give her the living child. Please don't kill him." But the other woman said, "Cut him in half! That way, he'll belong to neither one of us."

Now therefore please order that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, because you know there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians do."

The king specified that large, expensive stones be quarried so the foundation of the Temple could be laid with cut stones.

Above these were expensive stones cut according to specifications, and cedar.

So the great court was surrounded by three rows of cut stone, along with a row of cedar beams, just like the inner court of the LORD's Temple and the porch surrounding the Temple.

He removed his mother Maacah from her position as Queen Mother because she had made a detestable image dedicated to Asherah. Asa cut down his mother's idol, crushed it, and burned it at the Kidron Brook.

So let them provide two oxen. They can choose one ox for themselves. Cut it up, lay it on top of some wood, but don't set fire to it. I will prepare the other ox and lay it on top of some wood, and I won't set fire to it.

Then he laid the wood in order, cut the bull into pieces, and laid them on top of the wood. "Fill four pitchers with water," he ordered. "Then pour them out on the burnt offering and the wood."

Then you are to attack every fortified city and every significant city. Cut down every significant tree, fill in all of the water springs, and ruin every prime piece of land with stones."

"I'm willing," he replied. So he accompanied them, and when they came to the Jordan River, they cut down some trees.

They also cut down the pillar to Baal, tore apart Baal's temple, and turned it into a latrine and it remains that way today.

By your messengers you have insulted the LORD. You have claimed, "With my many chariots I ascended the heights of the mountains, including the remotest regions of Lebanon; I cut down its tall cedars and the best of its cypress trees. I entered its most remote lodging place and its most fruitful forest.

He broke the pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherim, and filled their locations with human bones.

Nebuchadnezzar carried off from there all of the treasures of the LORD's Temple, along with the treasures in the king's palace. He cut into pieces all the gold vessels in the LORD's Temple that King Solomon of Israel had made, just as the LORD had said would happen.

Also send me cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, since I'm aware that your servants know how to cut down timber from Lebanon. My servants will accompany your servants

We'll cut down the timber you need from Lebanon and transport it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so you can move it to Jerusalem."

King Asa removed his mother Maacah from her position as Queen Mother because she had made a detestable image dedicated to Asherah. He cut down his mother's idol, crushed it, and burned it at the Kidron Brook.

Ahaz also collected the utensils of God's Temple, cut them all into pieces, and closed the doors of the LORD's Temple. Then he made altars to himself on every corner in Jerusalem

At the conclusion of all of these activities, everybody in Israel who was in attendance traveled throughout the cities of Judah, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and altars throughout the territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh until they had eliminated all of them. Then the people of Israel went back to their cities and back to their work.

"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.

The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won't be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood.

They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.

He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

I will cut down the strength of the wicked, but the strength of the righteous will be lifted up. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.

You have caused the days of his youth to be cut short; you have covered him with shame Interlude

He has weakened my strength along the way. He has cut short my days.

For he shattered bronze gates and cut through iron bars.

The LORD is righteous he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.

The words of the righteous overflow with wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut out.

Keep in mind that wisdom is like that for your soul; if you find it, there will be a future for you, and what you hope for won't be cut short.

For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with practices learned from the East and they are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They cut deals with foreigners.

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamore trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.'

They cut meat on the right, but they're still hungry, and they devour also on the left, but they're not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own children.

But this is not what he intends, and this is not what he thinks in his mind; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut down many nations.

Behold, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will lop off its boughs with terrifying power; the tallest in height will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One."

At that time," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "the peg that was driven into a secure place will give way; it will be sheared and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The LORD has spoken.

For the ruthless will vanish, and mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down

And the nations will be burned as if to ashes; like cut thorn bushes, they will be set ablaze.

Watch this! I'm going to place an attitude within him, so that when he hears a certain report, he'll return to his own country. Then I'll have him cut down by the sword in his own land."

By your messengers you have insulted the LORD, and you have said, "With my many chariots I have climbed the heights of mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines; I reached its remotest heights, the most verdant of its forests.

Later, while he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with swords and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then Sennacherib's son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

"I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars.

I defer my anger for my name's sake, and as my first act I'm restraining it for you, so as not to cut you off.

"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD! Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry from which you were hewn.

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Cut down trees and set up siege works against Jerusalem. It is the city to be judged, and there is oppression throughout the entire city.

Speak! "This is what the LORD says: "The corpses of people will fall like dung on the surface of the field, and like a row of cut grain behind the harvester when there is no one to gather it."'"

For the practices of the people are worthless. Indeed, a tree is cut down from the forest; it's the work of the hands of a craftsman with an ax.

Both the most and the least important people will die in this land, and they won't be buried. People won't mourn for them. They won't cut themselves, nor will they shave their heads for them.

I'll appoint people to destroy you men with their weapons. They'll cut down some of your choice cedars and incinerate them.

I'll give over the men who transgressed my covenant, who haven't fulfilled the terms of the covenant that they made before me when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts

As Jehudi would read three or four columns, the king would cut it with a scribe's knife and throw it into the fire which was in the stove, until all the scroll was burned in the fire in the stove.

And why have you provoked me to anger by the works of your hands, by offering sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to settle so that you cut yourselves off and become an object of ridicule and scorn among all the nations of the earth?

They'll cut down her forest, though it's impenetrable," declares the LORD, "for they're more numerous than locusts, and there are too many of them to count.

Indeed every head will be bald and every beard cut short. There will be gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

You who live beside many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, your life thread is cut.

"Now as for you, Son of Man, you are to go find a sharp sword and use it like a barber's razor. You are to cut your hair and beard. Then you are to take a weighing scale and divide your shaved hair into three parts.

Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn't cut. You weren't washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it's certain that you weren't wrapped in strips of cloth.

They'll bring a mob against you to stone you to death and cut you into pieces with their swords.

Then the army will stone them with stones and cut them to pieces with their swords. They'll kill their sons and daughters and incinerate their houses.

They won't need to cut down trees from the fields nor gather firewood from the forests, because they will light fires with the weapons as they plunder the plunderers and loot the looters!" declares the Lord GOD.

Now, just as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without human hands and that it crushed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold to pieces so also the great God has revealed to the king what will take place after this. Your dream will come true, and its meaning will prove trustworthy."

"Cut down the tree and cut off its branches. Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals get out from under it, and let the birds leave its branches. Nevertheless, leave the stump and its roots in the ground, but bind it with iron and bronze in the field grass. Let him be drenched with dew from the sky, and let him graze with the animals in the grass of the earth.

"Your majesty saw a holy observer descending from heaven and saying, "Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump in the ground, along with its roots, bound with iron and bronze in the field grass. Let him be soaked with the dew of the sky and live with the wild animals of the field until seven seasons pass over him.'

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
קצץ 
Qatsats 
Usage: 14

כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

ἐκκόπτω 
Ekkopto 
Usage: 6

בּצע 
Batsa` 
Usage: 17

גּדע 
Gada` 
... down , cut off , asunder , cut in sunder
Usage: 22

גּזז 
Gazaz 
Usage: 15

גּזר 
Gazar 
Usage: 13

דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 15

דּמם 
Damam 
Usage: 30

כּחד 
Kachad 
Usage: 32

כּסח 
Kacach 
cut up , cut down
Usage: 2

מוּל 
Muwl 
Usage: 37

נמל 
Namal 
Usage: 4

נתח 
Nathach 
Usage: 9

קטף 
Qataph 
crop off , pluck , cut up , cut down
Usage: 5

קצה 
Qatsah 
Usage: 5

קרע 
Qara` 
Usage: 63

διαπρίω 
Diaprio 
be cut to the heart , be cut
Usage: 2

διχοτομέω 
Dichotomeo 
Usage: 0

בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54

גּדד 
Gadad 
Usage: 9

גּדדה גּדוּד 
G@duwd 
Usage: 1

גּוּז 
Guwz 
Usage: 2

גּזר 
G@zar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

דּמי דּמי 
D@miy 
Usage: 4

חטב 
Chatab 
Usage: 9

חלף 
Chalaph 
change , pass , renew , strike through , grow up , abolish , sprout again , alter , pass away , cut off , go on , pass on , over
Usage: 28

חצב חצב 
Chatsab 
Usage: 25

חצץ 
Chatsats 
bands , archers , cut off in the midst
Usage: 3

חרשׁת 
Charosheth 
Usage: 4

כּוּתה כּוּת 
Kuwth 
Usage: 2

נקה 
Naqah 
Usage: 44

עבד 
`abad (Aramaic) 
do , made , cut , do , do , worketh , executed , goeth , kept , moved , wrought
Usage: 28

ערף 
`araph 
Usage: 5

פּלח 
Palach 
Usage: 5

צמת 
Tsamath 
Usage: 15

קטט 
Qatat 
Usage: 1

קמט 
Qamat 
cut down , filled me with wrinkles
Usage: 2

קסס 
Qacac 
Usage: 1

קפד 
Qaphad 
Usage: 1

קצב 
Qatsab 
Usage: 2

קצץ 
Q@tsats (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

שׂוּר 
Suwr 
cut
Usage: 1

שׂרט 
Sarat 
cut in pieces , in pieces , make
Usage: 3

שׂרטת שׂרט 
Seret 
Usage: 2

תּזז 
Tazaz 
Usage: 1

ἀποκόπτω 
Apokopto 
Usage: 4

ἀφαιρέω 
Aphaireo 
Usage: 8

κατακόπτω 
Katakopto 
cut
Usage: 1

κόπτω 
Kopto 
Usage: 6

συντέμνω 
suntemno 
Usage: 2

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