ga.zar describes cutting or dividing, being cut off, and in two clauses issuing what is decreed.

The occurrences most often describe persons, a flock, or a people as cut off or separated; they also show direct cutting or dividing of a child, trees, and the sea. In two Niphal and Qal contexts, the term occurs in clauses about what was decreed and what a person will decree.

1. Being cut off or separated · dominant

   Niphal perfect forms describe Uzziah as separated from the house of the LORD in 2 Chronicles 26:21, Israel's bones and hope as cut off in Ezekiel 37:11, and the speaker's cry, "I am cut off," in Lamentations 3:54. The same construction occurs where a flock is removed from the fold in Habakkuk 3:17 and where someone is cut off from the land of the living in Isaiah 53:8; Psalm 88:6 places the plural form in the speaker's descent to the pit.

   2 Chronicles 26:21Ezekiel 37:11Habakkuk 3:17Isaiah 53:8Lamentations 3:54Psalm 88:6
2. Cutting or dividing something · common

   Qal imperatives order the living child divided in 1 Kings 3:25 and reject that outcome in 1 Kings 3:26. Qal forms also occur as people cut trees in 2 Kings 6:4 and as the Red Sea is cut into pieces in Psalm 136:13; in Isaiah 9:19 the sequential imperfect stands in a clause where no one spares his brother.

   1 Kings 3:251 Kings 3:262 Kings 6:4Psalm 136:13Isaiah 9:19
3. Decreeing an outcome · occasional

   In Esther 2:1, the Niphal perfect occurs in the clause about what had been decreed against Vashti. In Job 22:28, a Qal imperfect addresses a person who will decree a matter, followed by the statement that it will be established.

   Esther 2:1Job 22:28

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the clauses with "Divide," "cut the trees," "cut off," "cut into pieces," and "decree." In Psalm 88:6 and Esther 2:1, its broader wording does not isolate the term's contribution clearly.