גָּזַר
ga.zar (H1504)
to cut
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The word "גָּזַר" (ga.zar) is derived from the Hebrew root that means "to cut." This root conveys a physical action of severing or dividing something, much like using scissors or a knife to cut through an object. In the Bible, "גָּזַר" is used 13 times, indicating its fairly broad range of usage. Its physical connotations are consistent across various contexts, including separating or dividing objects, land, or even time. This word does not specifically convey a moral or abstract meaning; its primary function is to describe a concrete action. Given its basic definition and relatively common usage, "גָּזַר" might seem like a straightforward term. However, its implications can have significance in biblical narratives where geographical or temporal boundaries are being demarcated, highlighting the power and authority to make decisive separations in the natural and physical world.
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The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
to him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;
One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’
For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: