גָּדַע

Deuteronomy 7:5 תְּגַדֵּע֔וּן you will cut down !

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

Here: 'You shall hew down.' The verb is used for cutting down trees and for lopping off horns or limbs, so it fits a wooden object. The stronger verb form and the old-fashioned ending (-un) add weight.

Deuteronomy 12:3 תְּגַדֵּע֑וּן you will cut down !

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

Here: A chopping verb, used for felling trees or cutting off horns and limbs. With the same emphatic -un ending, it means 'you shall hack down', a word that suits carved wooden figures.

Judges 21:6 נִגְדַּ֥ע it has been cut off

And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

1 Samuel 2:31 וְגָֽדַעְתִּי֙ and I will cut off

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in it will reach old age.

2 Chronicles 14:3 וַיְגַדַּ֖ע and he cut down

He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

2 Chronicles 31:1 וַיְגַדְּע֣וּ and they cut down

When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

Here: To hew or chop down, as with an axe. It is the verb used for felling the wooden asherah in Deut 7:5 and 12:3, and it shows the object was wood.

2 Chronicles 34:4 גִּדֵּ֑עַ he cut down

Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Chronicles 34:7 גִּדַּ֖ע he cut down

He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 75:10 אֲגַדֵּ֑עַ I will cut off

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

Here: An intensive form of a verb used for chopping down trees and sacred poles. It describes a violent, decisive stroke that shears the horn off. The horn is not just blunted. First person: 'I will hack off.'

Psalm 107:16 גִּדֵּֽעַ׃ he cuts down

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Isaiah 9:10 גֻּדָּ֔עוּ they have been cut down

“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Here: “They have been cut down,” a passive form of a verb for chopping or hacking down violently. Someone did the felling, but the speakers leave the agent unnamed.

Isaiah 10:33 גְּדוּעִ֔ים [will be] cut down

Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

Here: "Hewn down": chopped through at the trunk. It is a passive participle, describing the trees as already lying cut. The same verb is used in 9:10 [9:9 Heb.] for felled sycamores and elsewhere for cutting down sacred poles and breaking horns.

Isaiah 14:12 נִגְדַּ֣עְתָּ you have been cut down

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

Here: 'You have been hewn down': a woodcutter's word, used for felling trees (Isaiah 10:33) and breaking off horns. It turns the image from a falling star to a felled tree, picking up 14:8, where the cedars rejoice that the king who cut them down will never come again. The one who felled others is now felled.

Isaiah 22:25 וְנִגְדְּעָ֣ה and it will be cut down

In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 45:2 אֲגַדֵּֽעַ׃ I will cut through

“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Here: An intensive form: "I will hack through" or "cut in two". Elsewhere the verb is used for felling trees and cult poles and for lopping off horns, so it pictures violent cutting. Iron bars are cut like timber.

Jeremiah 48:25 נִגְדְּעָה֙ it will be cut off

The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:23 נִגְדַּע֙ it has been cut off

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Lamentations 2:3 גָּדַ֣ע he has cut off

In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

Here: A woodcutter's or smasher's verb: chopping down a tree, breaking off a bar or staff. It opens the verse with violence. It is also the first word of the third stanza of this alphabetic poem, so it begins with the letter gimel.

Ezekiel 6:6 וְנִגְדְּעוּ֙ and they will be cut down

Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

Here: 'Will be chopped down.' It is the verb used for felling sacred poles and breaking off horns or limbs (Deut 7:5; 12:3).

Amos 3:14 וְנִגְדְּעוּ֙ and they will be cut off

On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

Here: A passive form, 'and they will be hacked off'. This verb is used for chopping down pagan sacred poles (Deut 7:5; 12:3) and for 'cutting off' someone's horn, meaning their strength (Ps 75:10; Lam 2:3). Israel's own altar gets the treatment given to an idol.

Zechariah 11:10 וָאֶגְדַּ֖ע and I cut up

Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

Here: A violent word for chopping, used elsewhere of cutting down sacred poles (Deut 7:5) and hacking off horns or arms (Lam 2:3; 1 Sam 2:31). The staff is chopped through, not just snapped.

Zechariah 11:14 וָֽאֶגְדַּע֙ and I cut up

Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.