To incise
שָׂרַטStrong’s H8295sarat (sa-rat)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sarat is the Hebrew word usually translated “cut”, “severely” and “injure themselves”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Meaning
- To incise, scratch, tattoo, cut(Qal) to make incision · (Niphal) to be scratched or lacerated, be cut
How it's translated
- they will cut 1
- severely 1
- they will injure themselves 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Zechariah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂרַט sarat · to incise
1) to incise, scratch, tattoo, cut 1a) (Qal) to make incision 1b) (Niphal) to be scratched or lacerated, be cut
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “incise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INCI'SE, verb transitive
s as z. To cut in; to carve.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.