גָּדַע
ga.da
“to cut down/off”
Definition
to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything
a primitive root;
- to cut, hew, chop, cut down, hew down, hew off, cut off, cut in two, shave off 1a) (Qal) to hew, chop in two 1b) (Niphal) to be chopped off, be hewn off 1c) (Piel) to cut off or down in two, hew off or down in two 1d) (Pual) to chop down, hew down
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
גָּדַע appears 19 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
How you have fallen from heaven,O day star, son of the dawn!You have been cut down to the ground,O destroyer of nations.
And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
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