Lexical Summary gazar: to cut, divide Original Word: גָּזַרTransliteration: gazar Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-zar') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut, divide Meaning: to cut down, off, to destroy, divide, exclude, decide Strong's Concordance cut down off, decree, divide, snatch A primitive root; to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide -- cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1504. gazar גָּזַר verb cut, divide (Arabic , Late Hebrew גָּזַר cut, determine, circumcise; Ethiopic Aramaic גְּזַר, ) — Qal Perfect גָּזַר Habakkuk 3:17; Imperfect וַיִּגְזֹר Isaiah 9:19; 2masculine singular תִּגְזַר Job 22:28; וַיִּגְזְרוּ 2 Kings 6:4; Participle active גֹּזֵר Psalm 136:13; — 1 divide, cut in two, followed by accusative 1 Kings 3:25 (׳ג לִשְׁנָ֑יִם) compare 3:26 (object not expressed). 2 divide the Red Sea (accusative) Psalm 136:13 followed by לִגְזָרִים. 3 cut down הָעֵצִים 2 Kings 6:4. 4 cut off (piece of meat to eat, but object not expressed "" אכל) Isaiah 9:19. 5 cut off, i.e. destroy, exterminate Habakkuk 3:17 (with accusative; indefinite subject), followed by מִן local 6 decree (Aramaism, compare Biblical Aramaic) Job 22:28 with accusative Niph`al Perfect נִגְזַר2 Chronicles 26:21; Esther 2:1, נִגְזָ֑רְתִּי Lamentations 3:24, נִגְזָ֑רוּ Psalm 88:6, נִגְזַרְנוּ Ezekiel 37:11; Isaiah 53:8; — 1 be cut off, separate, excluded from (מִן) temple 2 Chronicles 26:21, from (מִן) Yahweh's hand Psalm 88:5 (of the slain), from (מִן) the land of the living Isaiah 53:8 (of the suffering servant of ׳י). 2 be cut off = destroyed Lamentations 3:54; Ezekiel 37:11. 3 be decreed, Esther 2:1 followed by עַל against (compare Qal 6). |