גָּזַר (ga.zar) means “to cut” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: gaw-zar' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
גָּזַר · ga.zar · to cut
1) to cut, divide, cut down, cut off, cut in two, snatch, decree 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut in two, divide 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to cut off, destroy, exterminate 1a4) to decree 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off, separated, excluded 1b2) to be destroyed, cut off 1b3) to be decreed
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a primitive root; to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
KJV glosses: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| are cut off | 2 |
| cut | 1 |
| cut him in two | 1 |
| cut off | 1 |
| had been decreed | 1 |
| he divided | 1 |
| he was cut off | 1 |
| i was going to die | 1 |
| they began to cut down | 1 |
| they carve out | 1 |
| we are cut off | 1 |
| your decisions | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| divide | 2 |
| for he was cut off | 2 |
| and he shall snatch | 1 |
| and what was decreed | 1 |
| i am cut off | 1 |
| no more and they are cut off | 1 |
| shall be cut off | 1 |
| they cut down | 1 |
| thou shalt also decree | 1 |
| to him which divided | 1 |
| we are cut off | 1 |
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and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
Read word by wordThen the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
Read word by wordSo Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.
Read word by wordSo King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.
Read word by wordSome time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.
Read word by wordYour decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
Read word by wordI am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 88.6
He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
Read word by wordThey carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.19
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
Read word by wordThe waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
Read word by wordThen He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
Read word by wordThough the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
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