# H3772 כָּרַת

כָּרַת (kârath), Strong’s H3772: to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting… KJV: be…

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*kârath* — to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting…

KJV: be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be…

Occurs 288 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כָּרַת 291 vb. cut off, cut down
- Qal
- 1 cut off
- 2 cut down
- 3 hew, timber
- 4 cut, or make a covenant
- Niph.
- 1 be cut off
- 2 be cut down
- 3 be chewed between the teeth
- 4 be cut off, in a more general sense fail
- Pual
- 1 be cut off
- 2 be cut down
- Hiph.
- 1 cut off, flattering lips
- 2 cut off, destroy the life of
- 3 cut down, destroy, cities
- 4 take away
- 5 permit to perish

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 9:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=11) — I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will…
- [Genesis 15:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=18) — In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of…
- [Genesis 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=14) — The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people…
- [Genesis 21:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=27) — Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
- [Genesis 21:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=32) — So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into…
- [Genesis 26:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=28) — They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us…
- [Genesis 31:44](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=44) — Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”
- [Genesis 41:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=36) — The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the…
- [Exodus 4:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=25) — Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are…
- [Exodus 8:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=5) — Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and…