שָׂרַט

sarat · cut oneself

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8295 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

sarat (שָׂרַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut oneself”.

Make cuts in the skin.

How to say it

sa·rat

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

To slash one's skin with something sharp, as was done for the dead.
To be badly hurt by carrying or striking something very heavy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

injured ×1
make ×1
will be severely ×1

Where it appears

Leviticus 21:5
They shall not make bald spots on their head, and the edge of their beard they shall not shave off, and in their flesh they shall not make cuts.
Zechariah 12:3
And it will happen on that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who carry it will be severely injured; and all the nations of the earth will gather against it.

And 1 more times.