# H1504 גָּזַר

גָּזַר (gâzar), Strong’s H1504: to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide KJV: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.. Occurs 13 times.

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*gâzar* — to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide

KJV: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.

Occurs 13 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גָּזַר vb. cut, divide
- Qal
- 1 divide, cut in two
- 2 divide the Red Sea
- 3 cut down
- 4 cut off (piece of meat to eat, but obj. not expr.)
- 5 cut off, i.e. destroy, exterminate
- 6 decree
- Niph.
- 1 be cut off, separated, excluded
- 2 be cut off = destroyed, exterminate
- 3 be decreed

## Where it occurs
- [1 Kings 3:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/3?v=25) — The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
- [1 Kings 3:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/3?v=26) — Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my…
- [2 Kings 6:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/6?v=4) — So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
- [Isaiah 9:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/9?v=19) — One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied…
- [Isaiah 53:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=8) — He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land…
- [Ezekiel 37:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/37?v=11) — Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up…
- [Habakkuk 3:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/3?v=17) — For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields…
- [Psalms 88:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/88?v=6) — set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your…
- [Psalms 136:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/136?v=13) — to him who divided the Sea of Suf apart, for his loving kindness endures forever;
- [Job 22:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/22?v=28) — You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.