KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument. Sense 2: Figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 9:11
Complete exact-word concordance
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
But thus shal ye deale with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and breake downe their images, and cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire.
1611 marginal noteHebr. statues, or pillars.
¶ When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
¶ When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possesse them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land:
1611 marginal noteHeb. inheritest or possessest them.
YE are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
¶ Yee are the children of the LORD your God: yee shall not cutte your selues, nor make any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.
1611 marginal noteLeuit 19.28.
WHEN the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
¶ When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose lande the LORD thy God giueth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses:
1611 marginal noteHeb. inheritest, or possessest.
1611 marginal noteChap. 12.29.
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor, to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut downe the tree, and the head slippeth from the helue, and lighteth vpon his neighbour that he die, he shall flee vnto one of those cities, and liue:
1611 marginal noteHeb. yron.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wood.
1611 marginal noteHeb. findeth.
¶ When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
¶ When thou shalt besiege a citie a long time, in making warre against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof, by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eate of them, and thou shalt not cut them downe ( for the tree of the field is mans life) to employ them in the siege.
1611 marginal noteOr, for, O man the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege.
1611 marginal noteHeb. to goe from before thee.
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meate, thou shalt destroy, and cut them downe, and thou shalt build bulwarkes against the city that maketh warre with thee, vntil it be subdued.
1611 marginal noteHebr. it come downe.
HE that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
¶ Hee that is wounded in the stones, or hath his priuie member cut off, shall not enter into the Congregation of the LORD.
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pitie her.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To pass into or through and sever; to enter and divide parts; to be severed by cutting.
