Words the Bible translates as cut
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- karatכָּרַתto cut: to physically sever something with a blade or tool
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- to cut off: to remove, exterminate, or exclude someone from the community or from the land
- to make a covenant: to ratify a binding agreement by the cutting of a sacrificial animal
- koptōκόπτωto cut off: to chop something free with a blow of a blade, as branches are cut from a tree
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- to mourn openly: to beat the breast and wail so that grief is seen and heard
- katakoptōκατακόπτωto cutnot studied yet
- qatsatsקָצַץto cut off: to sever or chop a physical thing clean away, whether a limb, a piece of metal, or a cord
- gazarגָּזַרto cut, divide, or cut off: to sever something by a decisive stroke, and so to separate or remove it
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- to decree, decide: to settle a matter firmly by an authoritative word
- nataḥנָתַחto cut a dead body apart at the joints into its separate pieces: to butcher a carcass into a countable set of parts
- gadadגָּדַדto slash one's own skin on purpose as a religious act: in grief for someone who has died, or to force a god to answer
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- to mass together in a body, the way a band of armed men does: to close in on someone, or to crowd to a place
- kasaḥכָּסַחto cutnot studied yet
- qatsavקָצַבto cut off: to sever a piece cleanly away with a blade, whether a stick from a tree or the wool from a sheep
- seretשֶׂרֶטa cut slashed into the skin: the gash a mourner opened in his own flesh for someone who had died
- gazahגָּזָהto cutnot studied yet
- qetsatsקְצַץto cutnot studied yet
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