גֵּרָהgêrâh

cud (Leviticus 11:3; Leviticus 11:4; Leviticus 11:5; Leviticus 11:6; Leviticus 11:26)

Pronunciation: gay-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1625

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 11:3 You may eat any animal that has completely split hooves and chews the cud.
  • Leviticus 11:4 You may not, however, eat the following animals that have split hooves or that chew the cud, but not both. The camel chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is ceremonially unclean for you.
  • Leviticus 11:5 The hyrax chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.
  • Leviticus 11:6 The hare chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.
  • Leviticus 11:7 The pig has evenly split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is unclean.
  • Leviticus 11:26 “Any animal that has split hooves that are not evenly divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. If you touch the carcass of such an animal, you will be defiled.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).