Strong's Hebrew · H1438
גָּדַע
gâdaʻ · gaw-dah'
Definitionto fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagecut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
Occurrences22 in the KJV · 22 verses
גָּדַע in Scripture
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 12:3
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Judges 21:6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father' s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
2 Chronicles 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods , and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 34:4
And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them , and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
2 Chronicles 34:7
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 75:10
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalms 107:16
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Isaiah 9:10
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Isaiah 10:33
Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
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