Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to tear off
Usage: (Piel) to tear apart, ravage, tear off
Kircem means “waste” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3765 — ouketi (“not yet”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3765 כִּרסֵם (kircem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kircem (kir-same') v. 1. to lay waste [from H3697] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include waste. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
kircem (kir-same') v. 1. to lay waste [from H3697] KJV: waste. Root(s): H3697
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3765. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to tear off
Usage: (Piel) to tear apart, ravage, tear off
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kircem, 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.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H3765.
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3765, grouped by book.
Kircem (Strong's H3765) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "waste". kircem (kir-same') v. 1. to lay waste [from H3697]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H3765 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3765 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as waste. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.