גָּרַרgârar
drag, drag away
Pronunciation: gaw-rar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1641
Meanings
Qal: drag away (Habakkuk 1:15; Proverbs 21:7)
Niph`al: he cheweth (Leviticus 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:8)
Po`al: sawn (1 Kings 7:9)
Hithpo`el: roaring, see I. גור, גדד (Jeremiah 36:23; Jeremiah 23:19; Hosea 7:14)
Same root
- גַּרְגַּרgargar · H1620a berry (as if a pellet of rumination)
- גַּרְגְּרוֹתgargᵉrôwth · H1621the throat (as used in rumination)
- גֵּרָהgêrâh · H1625the cud (as scraping the throat)
- גֵּרָהgêrâh · H1626a gerah or small weight (and coin)
- גָּרוֹןgârôwn · H1627the throat (as roughened by swallowing)
- גְּרָרGᵉrâr · H1642Gerar, a Philistine city
- מְגֵרָהmᵉgêrâh · H4050a saw
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 11:7 The pig has evenly split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is unclean.
- 1 Kings 7:9 From foundation to eaves, all these buildings were built from huge blocks of high-quality stone, cut with saws and trimmed to exact measure on all sides.
- Proverbs 21:7 The violence of the wicked sweeps them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
- Jeremiah 30:23 Look! The Lord’s anger bursts out like a storm, a driving wind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked.
- Hosea 7:14 They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts. Instead, they sit on their couches and wail. They cut themselves, begging foreign gods for grain and new wine, and they turn away from me.
- Habakkuk 1:15 Must we be strung up on their hooks and caught in their nets while they rejoice and celebrate?
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).