Chop
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; - usually with off or down.
(2): (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; - with up.
(3): (v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
(4): (v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; - often with up.
(5): (v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
(6): (v. i.) To interrupt; - with in or out.
(7): (v. i.) To barter or truck.
(8): (v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
(9): (v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
(10): (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
(11): (v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
(12): (n.) A change; a vicissitude.
(13): (v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
(14): (n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
(15): (n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
(16): (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
(17): (n.) A jaw of an animal; - commonly in the pl. See Chops.
(18): (n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
(19): (n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
(20): (n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
(21): (n.) A permit or clearance.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To cut off or separate, by striking with a sharp instrument, either by a single blow or by repeated blows as, to chop off a head to chop wood. 2. To cut into small pieces to mince as, to chop meat to chop straw. 3. To grand and mince with the teeth to devour eagerly with up as, to chop up an entertainment. 4. To break or open into chinks or fissures to crack to chap. See Chap.
1. To buy, or rather to barter, truck, exchange. 2. To exchange to put one thing in the place of another as, to chop and change our friends. 3. To bandy to altercate to return one word or thing for another.
Let not the council chop with the judge.
Chop, To turn, vary, change or shift suddenly as in the seamans phrase, the wind chops, or chops about. The various senses of this verb seem to center in that of thrusting, driving, or a sudden motion or exertion of force.
Chop, n.
1. A piece chopped off a small piece of meat as a mutton chop. 2. A crack or cleft. See Chap, which, with the broad sound of a, is often pronounced chap. 3. The chap the jaw plu. The jaws the mouth the sides of a rivers mouth or channel. See Chap.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
(פרשׂ , pāras ):
Figurative: This word, meaning "to cut in pieces," "to distribute," often translated "spread," is rendered "chop" in Micah 3:3 , they "chop them in pieces, as for the pot," figuratively for the destruction of God's people through the cruel exactions of their rulers.
