Incision
שֶׂ֫רֶטStrong’s H8296seret (se-ret)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seret is the Hebrew word usually translated “cut”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.”
Meaning
- Incision, cut
- Incision, cut
How it's translated
- and cut 1
- cut 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שֶׂ֫רֶט seret · incision
incision, cut Also means: sa.re.tet (שָׂרֶ֫טֶת "incision" H8296B)
שָׂרֶ֫טֶת saretet · incision
incision, cut Another spelling of se.ret (שֶׂ֫רֶט "incision" H8296A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “incision” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INCIS'ION, noun
s as z. [Latin incisio, from incido, to cut.]
- A cutting; the act of cutting into a substance.
- A cut; a gash; the separation of the surface of any substance made by a sharp instrument.
- Separation of viscid matter by medicines.
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.