gazar · cut, divide, decide

What it means

gazar (גָּזַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut, divide, decide”.

Cut, split in two; hence to separate someone, to exclude, or to decide a matter.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To divide something into parts with one cut.
2. To be shut off, excluded.
3. To give a firm decree, like one who cuts a matter short.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Cut ×7
• he was cut off ×2
• You will decide ×1
• had been decreed ×1
• him who split ×1
• they slice ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Esther×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Habakkuk×1

• 1 Kings 3:25

  And the king said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”

• 1 Kings 3:26

  Then the woman whose son was the living one said to the king, because her inner parts were stirred for her son, and she said, “Pardon me, my lord, give her the living newborn, and do not by any means put him to death!” But this one said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; cut him!”

• 2 Kings 6:4

  So he went with them. They came to the Jordan and cut down trees.

• 2 Chronicles 26:21

  Uzziah the king was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house, leprous, for he was cut off from the house of YHWH; and Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.

• Esther 2:1

  After these things, when the fury of King Ahasuerus had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.

• Job 22:28

  You will decide a matter, and it will be established for you, and on your ways light will shine.

• Psalms 88:5

  set loose among the dead, like the pierced who lie in the grave, whom you do not remember anymore, and they from your hand have been cut off.

• Psalms 136:13

  to him who split the Sea of Reeds into parts, for his loyal love is forever.

• Isaiah 9:20

  And they slice on the right and are hungry, and they eat on the left and are not satisfied; each eats the flesh of his own arm:

• Isaiah 53:8

  By oppression and by judgment he was taken away; and his generation, who will consider it? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people the blow was for him.

• Lamentations 3:54

  Waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off.”

• Ezekiel 37:11

  And he said to me, “Son of man, these bones, they are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

• Habakkuk 3:17

  Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, the work of the olive lies, and the fields do not produce food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there are no cattle in the stalls,