Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
15 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “cut” →
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other , and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
