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גָּרָה

gârâh · H1624 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to provoke

    Causative action by which humans provoke other humans to anger and so cause conflicts

    Examples

    Deuteronomy 2:5 do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even as much as a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

    Deuteronomy 2:9 “Then the LORD said to me, ‘Do not attack Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.’

    Deuteronomy 2:19 ‘When you come opposite the sons of Ammon, do not attack them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.’

  2. to wage war

    Action by which humans wage war with other humans

    Examples

    Daniel 11:10 “And his sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, so that he may again wage war up to his fortress.

    Daniel 11:25 “And he will stir up his strength and courage against the king of the South with a large army; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war; but he will not stand, because schemes will be devised against him.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

14 occurrences in 8 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

5 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 8 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Angry002001002002
The verb describes provoking or stirring up hostility, the incitement to anger and confrontation warned against toward Israel's neighboring peoples.
Conflict002003002006
The verb also describes engaging in armed conflict or war, the military attack Israel is repeatedly commanded not to initiate against Edom, Moab, and Ammon.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

גָּרָהgârâh · H1624תִּגְרָה tigrâh · H8409 · blow · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1624. garah [גָּרָה] verb only Pi`el stir up strife, Hithpa`el engage in strife (compare…
H1624. garah
[גָּרָה] verb only
Pi`el stir up strife,
Hithpa`el engage in strife (compare Late Hebrew Pi`el stir up, excite, against (בְּ) Hithpa`el; Aramaic Pa`el גָּרֵא ; especially Assyrian garû, Qal attack, be at war with, garû, girû, enemy, etc. AsrbAnnals iv. 49, 50 (KBii. 190) also SASmithAssurbanipal i. ii. Glossary; Arabic is run, especially of water, flow, etc.) —
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular יְגָרֶה Pro 15:18; Pro 28:25; Pro 29:22, all with object מָדוֺן excite, stir up, strife. — On גֵּרָה Deu 14:8 see I. גֵּרָה below גרר.
Hithpa`el Perfect2feminine singular הִתְגָּרִיתְ Jer 50:24; Imperfect3masculine singular יִתְגָּרֶה Dan 11:25, וְיִתְגָּרֶ֯ו Dan 11:10; Dan 11:2masculine singular תִּתְגָּרֶה 2Ki 14:19; 2Ch 25:19; jussive with apocope תִּתְגָּר Deu 2:9, Deu 2:19; Deu 2:3masculine plural יִתְגָּרוּ Pro 28:4; Dan 11:10, compare Dan 11:10 Kt., see above; 2 masculine plural תִּתְגָּרוּ Deu 2:5 (jussive); Imperative masculine singular הִתְגָּר Deu 2:24; —
1 excite oneself against (בְּ person), engage in strife with, literally Deu 2:5, Deu 2:19; 2Ki 14:19 2Ch 25:19 (followed by בְּרָעָה; — רעה personified as challenged opponent); also + accusative of manner, מִלְחָמָה Deu 2:9, Deu 2:24; figurative בָם יִתְגָּרוּ תוֺרָה וְשֹׁמְרֵי Pro 28:4 while they that keep the law are at strife with them, i.e. with those that forsake it.
2 absolute, excite oneself (against foe), wage war, only Dan 11:רַבִּים חֲיָלִים הֲמוֺן וְאָֽסְפוּ יִתְגָּרוּ Pro 28:10 they shall wage war, etc.; עַדמָֿעֻזֹּה וְיִתְגָּרֶ֯ו וְיָשֹׁב Pro 28:10 and he shall return and war, even to his stronghold; Pro 28:25 followed by לַמִּלְחָמָה + גָּדוֺל בְּחַיִל (instrumental)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Angry11 occurrencesConflict3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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