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title: גָּזַר — cut · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּזַר (1504), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: cut. BDB 1906: vb. cut, divide Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּזַר

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«גָּזַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cut** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 1504 · **BDB:** גָּזַר

### Glosses

cut (2); he.was.cut.off (2); I.have.been.cut.off (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cut [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1504/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. cut, divide Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1504/#m2)

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**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).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּזַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1504/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 3:54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.54/)

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צָֽפוּ־מַ֥יִם עַל־רֹאשִׁ֖י אָמַ֥רְתִּי נִגְזָֽרְתִּי׃ס

*Word for word:* they.overflowed waters over head my I.said I.have.been.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'

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[Psalms 136:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.13/)

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לְגֹזֵ֣ר יַם־ס֭וּף לִגְזָרִ֑ים כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* to \[one.who\].cut \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\] into pieces (dm) \[is\] forever loyalty his.covenant

*JPS 1917:* To Him who divided the Red Sea in sunder, for His mercy endureth for ever;

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