גָּרַף
gâraph · H1640 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to sweep away
Causative action by which a body of water removes humans from their place with force
ExamplesJudges 5:21 “The torrent of Kishon swept them away, The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. My soul, march on with strength!
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נַחַלstream, valley, wadi 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 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 1 word
- טוּא ṭûwʼ · H2894 · to sweep
- Hebrew טָאטֵא means to sweep or sweep clean (Isaiah 14:23), denoting the physical action of sweeping. It shares with גָּרַף the core meaning of sweeping/removing, though גָּרַף may emphasize more forceful sweeping away.
In the other Testament 1 word
- σαρόω saróō · G4563 · to sweep
- Greek σαρόω denotes the action of sweeping (as in Luke 15:8, sweeping a house to find a lost coin), directly paralleling Hebrew גָּרַף's sense of sweeping/removing. It serves as the natural Greek translation equivalent for this Hebrew verb of sweeping action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Move002002001012
- The verb describes sweeping something away by force, used of the torrent of Kishon sweeping away Sisera's army in Deborah's song.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1640. garaph [גָּרַף] verb sweep away (originally shovel or scoop up, away, compare Late…
[גָּרַף] verb sweep away (originally shovel or scoop up, away, compare Late Hebrew id., Arabic ; Aramaic גְּרַף, , Ethiopic in derivatives) — גְּרָפָם קִישׁוֺן) (נַחַל Jdg 5:21.
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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