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# גָּרַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1623

**scrape** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

scrape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1623/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּרַד: vb. scrape, scratch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1623/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. scrape, scratch (NH id., Aramaic גְּרַד, ܓܪܰܕ & Ph. מגרדם flesh-scrapers CIS 338. 4; cf. also Arabic جَرَدَ peel or strip off bark, shave hair from a hide etc.)— Inf. לְהִתְגָּרֵד scrape one’s self Jb 2:8.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: scrape himself (1).

## In the verses

[Job 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.2.8/#tree)

וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לְהִתְגָּרֵ֖ד בּ֑וֹ וְה֖וּא יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּתוֹךְ־הָאֵֽפֶר׃

*Word for word:* and he.took for himself a.potsherd to scrape.himself with it and he \[was\].sitting in the.midst the ash\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1623.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1623/): 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).