Gazar means “divide” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1504 — eikon (“image”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1504 גָּזַר (gazar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gazar (gaw-zar') v. 1. to cut down or off 2. (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide It has 13 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include cut, divide, decree, and snatch. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gazar (gaw-zar') v. 1. to cut down or off 2. (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide [a primitive root] KJV: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
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to cut
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gazar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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13 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1504.
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and 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 appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1504, grouped by book.
Gazar (Strong's H1504) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "divide". gazar (gaw-zar') v. 1. to cut down or off 2. (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's H1504 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1504 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cut, divide, decree, and snatch. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.