'Cutting' in the Bible

But a very great crowd strewed their own garments on the way, and others kept cutting down branches from the trees and strewing them on the way.

And continually night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying and cutting himself with stones.

for he is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting it short in righteousness; because a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth.

Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.