# karat (כָּרַת)

pronounced: ka-RAT


**To cut — Hebrew speaks of ‘cutting’ a covenant rather than merely making one**

## In Scripture

> In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
> — Genesis 15:18 (The Hebrew behind ‘made a covenant’ is literally ‘cut a covenant’)

> Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
> — Exodus 24:8 (Exact root occurrence — the Hebrew says Yahweh “cut” the covenant sealed with blood at Sinai.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/karat/