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גָּדַע

From LSJ

Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

English (Strong)

a primitive root; to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything: cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.