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1 Samuel 31:9
“And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- וַֽ — conjunction
- יִּכְרְתוּ֙ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- 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.