גָּזַר
ga.zar
“to cut”
Definition
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
a primitive root;
- 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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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
גָּזַר appears 11 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
So 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 to govern the people of the land.
Some 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.
Though the fig tree does not budand no fruit is on the vines,though the olive crop failsand the fields produce no food,though the sheep are cut off from the foldand no cattle are in the stalls,
Your decisions will be carried out,and light will shine on your ways.
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