גֵּרָה
gêrâh · H1625 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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cud
The portion of food that is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach to be chewed a second time
ExamplesLeviticus 11:3 ‘Whatever has a divided hoof, showing split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
Leviticus 11:4 ‘Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which have a divided hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:5 ‘Likewise, the rock hyrax, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גָּרַרto drag away 1
- עָלָהto go up 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָלָהto go up 8
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 1 entry
- Weight002001001070
- This code is inherited from the shared listing with the related noun for the gerah weight/coin unit (גֵּרָה (gêrâh, H1626)), which shares this word's spelling, rather than an independent feature of this word's own attested cud-chewing sense.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1625. gerah I. גֵּרָה noun feminine cud (Arabic , so called from sound of rumination ?)…
I. גֵּרָה noun feminine cud (Arabic , so called from sound of rumination ?) — גֵּרָה Lev 11:3 Lev 11:10t. — cud, only in legislation of clean and unclean animals, and almost always with (הָ֯ תַ֯, יֵ֯,) מַעֲלֵה Lev 11:3-4, (twice in verse); Lev 11:5-6, Lev 11:26 (P) Deu 14:6 (twice in verse); Deu 14:7; ׳ג יִגָּ֑ר (compare גרר Niph`al) Lev 11:7; Deu 14:8 has גֵּרָת without verb, but read there as Lev 11:7 (so ᵐ5 ⅏ Di).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
Sources
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