Word

גָּרַז

gâraz · H1629 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to drag away, to thrust away

    Causative action by which someone or something is removed from his place with force

    Examples

    Psalm 31:22 As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from Your eyes”; Nevertheless You heard the sound of my pleadings When I called to You for help.

How it’s used In 1 role

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

Who or what does itSubject

1 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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Near synonyms 3 words
כָּרַת kârath · H3772 · to cut, to cut off, to cut down
Common Hebrew verb for cutting off or cutting down; while גָּרַז appears only once and may have a more specific or technical nuance, כָּרַת is the standard Hebrew term for severing, cutting off, or making a covenant (by cutting). Both denote the action of cutting or severing.
גָּדַע gâdaʻ · H1438 · to break off, to cut off, to cut down
Hebrew verb meaning to cut down, cut off, or hew down, often used of trees or destroying something by cutting. Semantically overlaps with גָּרַז in the sense of cutting off or severing.
קָצַץ qâtsats · H7112 · to cut off, to sever, to strip
Hebrew verb meaning to cut off or cut down, used in contexts of severing or removing something. Functions as a near synonym to גָּרַז in denoting the action of cutting off.
In the other Testament 1 word
ἀποκόπτω apokóptō · G609 · to cut down, to cut off, to cut in two
Greek equivalent for the Hebrew verb meaning to cut off; both verbs denote the action of severing or cutting off something, used in similar contexts of physical or metaphorical separation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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The verb describes being cut off or removed, used of the psalmist's fear of being cut off from the LORD's sight before his prayer was heard.
Word family 2 words

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1629. garaz [גָּרַז] verb cut, cut off (Arabic cut, cut off, exterminate) — Niph`al…
H1629. garaz
[גָּרַז] verb cut, cut off (Arabic cut, cut off, exterminate) —
Niph`al Perfect נִגְרַזְתִּי Psa 31:23 = destroyed out of Yahweh's sight.

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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