Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
KJV Usage: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גָּזַר (ga.zar) — to cut. 1) to cut, divide, cut down, cut off, cut in two, snatch, decree 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut in two, divide 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to cut off, destroy, exterminate 1a4) to decree 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off, separated, excluded 1b2) to be destroyed, cut off 1b3) to be decreed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · גִּזְרָה · גְּזֵרָה · מַגְזֵרָה
Detach | verb qal
to cut off, to cut down, to cut out = causative action by which part of an object is removed with force from a larger unit, with the help of a sharp object
Ingest | verb qal | ≈ אכל
to snatch and devour = causative action by which part of an edible object is removed with force from a larger unit, and eaten
Move | verb qal
to be snatched, to vanish = process by which objects are forcefully removed from a location
Move | verb nif
to cut off, to exclude, to banish = causative action by which objects are forcefully removed from a location, or denied access to a location
Non-Exist | verb nif
to be doomed literally: to be cut off; hence: = process by which individuals or groups are about to disappear from existence, without hope for a reversal of the situation
Think | verb qal, verb nif
to decide, to decree = action by which humans in a position of authority end a period of consideration and come to a resolution in their minds
Non-Whole | verb qal
to cut in two = causative action by which humans or deities divide objects into two halves
noun m
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
גָּזַר vb. cut, divide Qal divide, cut in two
divide the Red Sea
cut down
cut off (piece of meat to eat, but obj. not expr.)
cut off, i.e. destroy, exterminate
decree
Niph. be cut off, separated, excluded
be cut off = destroyed, exterminate
be decreed
base