'Cutting' in the Bible

and for cutting stones to set them, for carving wood, and for doing all kinds of craftsmanship.

"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?

and build an altar to the LORD your God on top of this stronghold in an orderly manner. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering using the wood from the Asherah that you'll be cutting down."

Looke, my father, look! The corner of your robe is in my hand. Indeed, by my cutting off the corner of your robe and not killing you, you may know and understand that I have no evil intent or transgression I haven't wronged you, even though you are hunting me to take my life.

by removing the foreign altars and high places, tearing down the sacred pillars, cutting down the Asherim, and

Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.

"Come, go to this steward, to Shebna who is in charge of the household, and ask him: "What are you doing here, and who are your relatives here that you could carve out a grave for yourself here cutting out a tomb at the choicest location, chiseling out a resting place for yourself out of solid rock?

Many people in the crowd spread their own coats on the road, while others began cutting down branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

Suddenly, one of the men with Jesus reached out his hand, drew his sword, and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

But when the grain is ripe, he immediately starts cutting with his sickle because the harvest time has come."

He kept screaming night and day among the tombs and on the mountainsides, and kept cutting himself with stones.

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Then one of them struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.