Limitless Word
גַּזָזgazâz/gaw-zaz'/
HebrewH149415 occurrences (KJV)

to cut off; specifically to shear aflock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy

KJV renders it: cut off (down), poll, shave, (sheep-) shear(-er).

Where it appears

  • Gen 31:19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
  • Gen 38:12After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
  • Gen 38:13Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
  • Deut 15:19You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
  • 1 Sam 25:2There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
  • 1 Sam 25:4David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
  • 1 Sam 25:7Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them, neither was there anything missing from them, all the while they were in Carmel.
  • 1 Sam 25:11Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”
  • 2 Sam 13:23After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
  • 2 Sam 13:24Absalom came to the king, and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”
  • Job 1:20Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
  • Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
  • Jer 7:29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
  • Mic 1:16Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!
  • Nah 1:12Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.