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2 Chronicles 23:3
“And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.” (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
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּכְרֹ֨ת — 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.