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1 Samuel 20:16
“So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כָּרַתkârath · kaw-rath'
H3772 · Hebrew
H3772 · Hebrew
- 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)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- 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.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּכְרֹ֥ת — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 290 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 9:11Genesis 15:18Genesis 17:14Genesis 21:27Genesis 21:32
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כָּרַת here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.