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# גָּרַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1633

**break bones** — used 2 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

break bones [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1633/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּרַם²: vb.denom. break bones, break [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1633/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. break bones, break— Impf. וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶם יְגָרֵם Nu 24:8 (JE); but also וְאֶת־חֲרָשֶׂיהָ תְּגָרֵ֖מִי Ez 23:34 (yet on text v. Co.)

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will break (1); you will break (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.8/#tree)

אֵ֚ל מוֹצִיא֣וֹ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם כְּתוֹעֲפֹ֥ת רְאֵ֖ם ל֑וֹ יֹאכַ֞ל גּוֹיִ֣ם צָרָ֗יו וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶ֛ם יְגָרֵ֖ם וְחִצָּ֥יו יִמְחָֽץ׃

*Word for word:* God \[is\].bringing it.out from Egypt like.\[the\] horns of.a.wild.ox \[belong\].to him it.will.consume nations foes its and bones their it.will.break and arrows its it.will.wound.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* God who brought him forth out of Egypt is for him like the lofty horns of the wild-ox; he shall eat up the nations that are his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them through with his arrows.

[Ezekiel 23:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.34/#tree)

וְשָׁתִ֨ית אוֹתָ֜הּ וּמָצִ֗ית וְאֶת־חֲרָשֶׂ֛יהָ תְּגָרֵ֖מִי וְשָׁדַ֣יִךְ תְּנַתֵּ֑קִי כִּ֚י אֲנִ֣י דִבַּ֔רְתִּי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and you.will.drink it and you.will.drain.\[it\] and (et) fragments its you.will.break and breasts your you.will.tear.out (dm) I I.have.spoken the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1633.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1633/): 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).