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# גָּזַר

Biblical Hebrew

**cut** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cut [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5d6_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּזַר: vb. cut, divide Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5d6_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut, divide (Arabic جَزَرَ, NH גָּזַר cut, determine, circumcise; Ethiopic ገዘረ Aramaic גְּזַר, ܓܙܰܪ )— Pf. גָּזַר Hb 3:17; Impf. וַיִּגְזֹר Is 9:19; 2 ms. תִּגְזַר Jb 22:28; וַיִּגְזְרוּ 2 K 6:4; Pt. act. גֹּזֵר ψ 136:13;— divide, cut in two, sq. acc. 1 K 3:25 (ג׳ לִשְׁנָ֑יִם) cf. v 26 (obj. not expressed). divide the Red Sea (acc.) ψ 136:13 sq. לִגְזָרִים. cut down הָעֵצִים 2 K 6:4. cut off (piece of meat to eat, but obj. not expr. ‖ אכל) Is 9:19. cut off, i.e. destroy, exterminate Hb 3:17 (c. acc.; indef. subj.), sq. מִן loc. decree (Aramaism, cf. Biblical Aramaic) Jb 22:28 c. acc. Pf. נִגְזַר 2 Ch 26:21; Est 2:1, נִגְזָ֑רְתִּי La 3:54, נִגֳז֑רוּ ψ 88:6, נִגְזַרְנוּ Ez 37:11; Is 53:8;— be cut off, separated, excluded from (מִן) temple 2 Ch 26:21, from (מִן) Yahweh’s hand ψ 88:6 (of the slain), from (מִן) the land of the living Is 53:8 (of the suffering servant of י׳). be cut off = destroyed La 3:54; Ez 37:11. be decreed, Est 2:1 sq. עַל against (cf. Qal 6).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it devoured (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 9:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.19/#tree)

וַיִּגְזֹ֤ר עַל־יָמִין֙ וְרָעֵ֔ב וַיֹּ֥אכַל עַל־שְׂמֹ֖אול וְלֹ֣א שָׂבֵ֑עוּ אִ֥ישׁ בְּשַׂר־זְרֹע֖וֹ יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.devoured on \[the\].right.side and it.was.hungry and it.ate on \[the\].left.side and not they.were.satisfied everyone the.flesh his.own.arm his they.ate

*JPS 1917:* And one snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry; and he eateth on the left hand, and is not satisfied; they eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5d6_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5d6_5b7_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).