כָּרֻתָהkâruthâh

cut off, cut down

Pronunciation: kaw-rooth-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3773

Meanings

Qal: construct, active (Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 20:20; Exodus 34:27)

1. cut off

a. things (Exodus 4:25; Leviticus 22:24; Deuteronomy 23:2)

b. persons, location (Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 50:16)

2. cut down (Deuteronomy 19:5; Deuteronomy 20:19; Deuteronomy 20:20)

3. hew (1 Kings 5:20; 2 Chronicles 2:7; 2 Chronicles 2:15)

4. cut, or make a covenant, (because of the cutting up and distribution of the flesh of the victim for eating in the sacrifice of the covenants, see בְּרִית) (Jeremiah 34:18; Genesis 15:10; Psalms 50:5)

Niph`al

1. be cut off

a. things (Proverbs 10:31; Isaiah 22:25; Zechariah 9:10)

b. of persons (Genesis 41:36; Genesis 9:11; Daniel 9:26)

c. that person shall be cut off (Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 7:20; Leviticus 7:21)

2. be cut down (Job 14:7)

3. be chewed (Numbers 11:33)

4. be cut off, fail, in a more general sense (Joshua 3:13; Joshua 3:16; Joshua 4:7)

Pual

1. be cut off (Ezekiel 16:4)

2. be cut down (Judges 6:28)

Hiph`il

1. cut off (Psalms 12:4)

2. cut off, destroy the life of

c. cutt off, to, or from, may Yahweh cut off to the man — from the tents of Jacob. (Deuteronomy 19:1; Joshua 23:4; Zephaniah 3:6)

3. cut down, destroy (Micah 5:10; Leviticus 26:30; Nahum 1:14)

4. take away (1 Samuel 20:15)

5. permit to perish (1 Kings 18:5)

Same root

כָּרַתkârath · H3772to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

1 Kings 6:36 The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.
1 Kings 7:2 One of Solomon’s buildings was called the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. There were four rows of cedar pillars, and great cedar beams rested on the pillars.
1 Kings 7:12 The walls of the great courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone, just like the walls of the inner courtyard of the Lord’s Temple with its entry room.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).