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# גָּרָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1618

**itch** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

itch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1618/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּרָב: itch, scab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1618/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] itch, scab (Arabic جَرَبٌ, Aramaic גַּרְבָּא, ܓܰܪܒܳܐ, Assyrian garabu Dl§ 162)—גָּרָב Lv 21:20; 22:22 Dt 28:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a festering rash (2); rash (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 21:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.20/#tree)

אֽוֹ־גִבֵּ֣ן אוֹ־דַ֔ק א֖וֹ תְּבַלֻּ֣ל בְּעֵינ֑וֹ א֤וֹ גָרָב֙ א֣וֹ יַלֶּ֔פֶת א֖וֹ מְר֥וֹחַ אָֽשֶׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* or a.\[man\].hunchbacked or a.\[man\].thin or a.defect in eye his or a.festering.rash or scab\[s\] or a.\[man\].crushed of.testicle

*JPS 1917:* or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed;

[Deuteronomy 28:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.27/#tree)

יַכְּכָ֨ה יְהוָ֜ה בִּשְׁחִ֤ין מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ וּבַטְּחֹרִ֔ים וּבַגָּרָ֖ב וּבֶחָ֑רֶס אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תוּכַ֖ל לְהֵרָפֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* he will.strike.you Yahweh with the.boil\[s\] of.Egypt and with (the) tumors and with.(the) festering rash and with (the) scabies which not you.will.be.able to be.healed

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1618.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1618/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).