Gizrah (גִּזְרָה) denotes a "cut off" or "separated" area — a place or state of exclusion. It derives from gazar (H1504, to cut, divide). The term appears in Ezekiel's temple vision to describe a restricted zone and in Lamentations to describe the isolation of the afflicted.
Gizrah captures the theology of separation — the reality that sin creates distance, both spatial and relational. In Ezekiel's visionary temple (Ezek. 41-42), the gizrah is a strip of restricted space, underlining holiness's demand for boundary. In Lamentations 3:54, the poet cries "I have been cut off [gazar]!" — the existential anguish of God-forsakenness. Jesus on the cross cried "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" — entering the ultimate gizrah to end all exclusion.
Root: gazar (H1504) — to cut, to decide. The noun gizrah freezes that cutting into a state: the result of being severed. Isaiah 53:8 uses the verb for the Servant being "cut off" — the same word family applied to the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. What was cut off from God so we might be joined.