כָּרַת

Strong’s Definition

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 flesh and passing between the pieces)

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(niphal)
• 4.(pual)
• 5.(hiphil)
• 6.(hophal) cut off

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: kârath; Pronunciation: kaw-rath'