גָּרַם
gâram · H1633 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to chew, to gnaw
Causative action by which humans or animals chew on an object persistently in an effort to satisfy their hunger or thirst
ExamplesNumbers 24:8 “God brings him out of Egypt, He is for him like the horns of the wild ox. He will devour the nations who are his adversaries, And will crush their bones, And smash them with his arrows.
Ezekiel 23:34 ‘And you will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw on its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.
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to leave a bone
Causative action by which a wild animal causes one of the bones of its victim to remain
ExamplesZephaniah 3:3 Her leaders within her are roaring lions, Her judges are wolves at evening; They have no bones to gnaw in the morning.
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
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חֶרֶשׂearthenware vessel 1
- עֶצֶםbone 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for+ בֹּקֶרmorning 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
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 2 words
- שָׁבַר shâbar · H7665 · to break, to shatter, to maul
- Common Hebrew verb for breaking or shattering objects including bones; broader in scope than גָּרַם but shares the core sense of breaking through force, particularly in contexts of destruction or physical breaking.
- רָצַץ râtsats · H7533 · to break, to crush
- Hebrew verb emphasizing violent crushing or breaking action; often used for breaking bones or crushing objects with force, semantically overlapping with the violent breaking sense of גָּרַם.
In the other Testament 1 word
- συντρίβω syntríbō · G4937 · to break into pieces, to shatter, to crush
- Greek equivalent for the 'break' sense of גָּרַם, commonly used for breaking bones or crushing objects; standard translation equivalent in LXX contexts involving bone-breaking or violent crushing action.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Impact002001001024
- The verb describes crushing or gnawing on bones, used of a conquering power that crushes the bones of its adversaries.
- Space002002001017
- This code is inherited from the shared listing with a related sense of this root involving bones as the body's spatial framework rather than an independent feature of the specific citations reviewed here.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1633. garam I. [גָּרַם] verb lay aside, leave, save **meaning dubious; ? cut off, hence…
I. [גָּרַם] verb lay aside, leave, save **meaning dubious; ? cut off, hence reserve (Late Hebrew גָּרַם is shorten, occasion, bring about, to pass, Aramaic גְּרַם Pa`el occasion, bring about, abscidit, decrevit, compare also Arabic cut off (fruit), shear (sheep); — on connection of ideas see Fl NHWBi. 437)
Qal Perfect3plural לַבֹּקֶר גָָֽרְמוּ לֹא Zep 3:3 they have left nothing for the morrow, in figure of cruel judges (dubious: al. from II. [גָּרַם], see KauAT Dr).
II. [גָּרַם] verb denominative break bones, break, —
Pi`el Imperfect יְגָרֵם וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶם Num 24:8 (JE); but also תְּגָרֵ֖מִי וְאֶתחֲֿרָשֶׂיהָ Eze 23:34 (yet on text see Co.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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