natach (to cut) · Rightly

Meaning

To cut, cut up, cut in pieces, divide(Piel) to cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints

How it's translated

and he will cut in pieces 2
you will cut in pieces 1
he cut in pieces 1
and he cut in pieces her 1
and i cut in pieces her 1
and he cut in pieces it 1
and let them cut in pieces it 1
and he cut it in pieces 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Leviticus 3
Judges 2
1 Kings 2
Exodus 1
1 Samuel 1

5 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Leviticus 1:6And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.
Leviticus 1:12And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus 8:20And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.
Judges 19:29And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
Judges 20:6And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
1 Samuel 11:7And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

All 9 verses, by book

Exodus 1: 29:17
Leviticus 3: 1:6 1:12 8:20
Judges 2: 19:29 20:6
1 Samuel 1: 11:7
1 Kings 2: 18:23 18:33

Hebrew dictionary

נָתַח natach · to cut

1) to cut, cut up, cut in pieces, divide 1a) (Piel) to cut up, cut in pieces, divide by joints

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “cut” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CUT, verb transitive

preterit tense and preposition cut [Latin, to thrust, to drive, to strike.]

To separate the parts of any body by an edged instrument, either by striking, as with an ax, or by sawing or rubbing; to make a gash, incision or notch, which separates the external part of a body, as to cut the flesh.
To hew.“Thy servants can skill to cut timber” 2 Chronicles 2:8
To carve, as meat; to carve or engrave in sculpture.
To divide; to cleave, by passing through; as, a ship cuts the briny deep.

All definitions and other forms of “cut”

To penetrate; to pierce; to affect deeply; as, a sarcasm cuts to the quick.
To divide, as a pack of cards; as, to cut and shuffle.
To intersect; to cross.
To castrate.“He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked” Psalms 129:4“Ye shall cut down their groves” Exodus 34:13
To separate one part from another; as, to cut off a finger, or an arm; to cut off the right hand figure; to cut off a letter or syllable.
To destroy; to extirpate; to put to death untimely.“Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord” 1 Kings 18:4
To separate; to remove to a distance, or to prevent all intercourse.
To interrupt; as, to cut off communication.
To separate; to remove; to take away; as, to cut off ten years of life.
To intercept; to hinder from return, or union.
To end; to finish; as, to cut off all controversy.
To prevent or preclude; as, to cut off all occasion of blame.
To preclude or shut out.
To stop, interrupt or silence.
To hasten; to run or ride with the utmost speed; a vulgar phrase.
To urge or drive in striking; to quicken blows; to hasten.
To remove a part by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board; to cut out the tongue.
To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment; to cut out an image; to cut out a wood into walks.
To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out word for another day.
To shape; to adapt.
To debar. [Not common.]
To take the preference or precedence of; as, to cut out a prior judgment creditor.
To step in and take the place of, as in courting and dancing. [A vulgar phrase.]
To interfere as a horse, when the shoe of one foot beats off the skin of the pastern joint of another.
To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption.
To shorten; to abridge; as, to cut short of provisions or pay; to cut the matter short.
To cut in pieces; as, to cut up beef.
To eradicate; to cut off; as, to cut up shrubs.

CUT, verb intransitive

To pass into or through and sever; to enter and divide the parts; as, an instrument cuts well.
To be severed by a cutting instrument; as, this fruit cuts easy or smooth.
To divide by passing.
To perform a surgical operation by cutting, especially in lithotomy.
To interfere, as a horse.

CUT, participle passive

Gashed; divided; hewn; carved; intersected; pierced; deeply affected; castrated.

CUT, noun

The action of an edged instrument; a stroke or blow, as with an ax or sword.
A cleft; a gash; a notch; a wound; the opening made by an edged instrument, distinguished by its length from that made by perforation with a pointed instrument.
A stroke or blow with a whip.
A channel made by cutting or digging; a ditch; a groove; a furrow; a canal.
A part cut off from the rest; as a good cut of beef; a cut of timber.
A lot made by cutting a stick; as, to draw cuts.
A near passage, by which an angle is cut off; a shorter cut
A picture cut or cared on wood or metal, and impressed from it.
The stamp on which a picture is carved, and by which it is impressed.
The act of dividing a pack of cards.
Manner in which a thing is cut; form; shape; fashion; as the cut of a garment; the cut of his beard.
A fool; a cully; a gelding. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.