Words the Bible translates as cut off
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 18 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- karatכָּרַתto cut off: to remove, exterminate, or exclude someone from the community or from the land
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- to cut: to physically sever something with a blade or tool
- to make a covenant: to ratify a binding agreement by the cutting of a sacrificial animal
- aphaireōἀφαιρέωto take away or remove something, whether by cutting it off, stripping it from someone, or doing away with it entirely
- ekkoptōἐκκόπτωto cut off or cut down: to sever something from what it grew on or belonged to, and be rid of it
- batsarבָּצַרto cut off, curb: to bring a proud spirit low
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- made inaccessible: fortified, walled off, or otherwise put beyond reach
- to gather grapes: to cut the ripe clusters from the vine at the vintage
- mulמוּלto cut off, beat back, or waste away: a separate poetic word for destroying or fending off, unrelated to the covenant rite
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- to circumcise: to cut away the foreskin as the bodily sign of belonging to God's covenant
- kaḥadכָּחַדto wipe out, to cut off or destroy so that something no longer exists.
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- to hide or conceal something, especially to keep back what one knows from another person.
- gadaגָּדַעto hew or chop something down by force: to fell it, break it off, or shatter it so it topples or is destroyed
- batsaבָּצַעto cut off: to sever a piece decisively from a whole, and so to bring a life or thing to an abrupt end
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- to bring to completion: to carry a work through to its decisive finish
- to gain unjustly: to grab dishonest profit at another's expense; to be greedy for gain
- apokoptōἀποκόπτωto cut offnot studied yet
- gazazגָּזַזto shear or clip: to cut wool off a flock, or hair off a head, close to the skin
- damahדָּמָהto be brought to an end and hushed: destroyed, cut off, or finished, and (of an activity) simply stopped.
- tsamatצָמַתto put a final end to someone or something: to destroy, exterminate, wipe out
- 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
- qatsahקָצָהto cut offnot studied yet
- guzגּוּזto cut offnot studied yet
- garazגָּרַזto cut offnot studied yet
- qatatקוֹטto cut offnot studied yet
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