Biblical Hebrew H3772 verb 288 occurrences

כָּרַת

Transliteration: karat (kārat)

Pronunciation: /kaw-RAT/

“to cut, cut off, make covenant”

To cut, sever; idiomatically 'karat berit' means to cut a covenant, derived from slaughtering animals and passing between divided halves.

Lexical & Etymological Analysis

Primitive root.

cut offmake covenantcut down

Cross-Testament Bridge

How this lemma bridges Old Testament Hebrew and New Testament Koine Greek through the Septuagint (LXX) translation tradition.

LXX conceptual translation: כָּרַת (to cut, cut off, make covenant) -> διαθήκη (a disposition, testament, will, a convention, arrangement, covenant)

LXX conceptual translation: כָּרַת (to cut, cut off, make covenant) -> G1842

Direct Cross-Language Equivalents:

G1242 διαθήκη (diatheke — “a disposition, testament, will, a convention, arrangement, covenant”)

Foundational passages where כָּרַת (karat) carries significant theological or narrative weight.