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# גָּרַם

Biblical Hebrew

**break bones** — 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

break bones [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּרַם: vb. cut off reserve [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut off, hence reserve (?) (NH גָּרַם is shorten, occasion, bring about, to pass, Aramaic גְּרַם Pa. occasion, bring about, ܓܪܰܡ abscidit, decrevit, cf. Arabic جَرَمَ cut off (fruit), shear (sheep);—on connexion of ideas v. Fl NHWB i.437) Pf. 3 pl. לֹא גָֽרְמוּ לַבֹּקֶר Zp 3:3 they have reserved nothing for the morrow, in fig. of cruel judges (dub.: al. from ii. \[גָּרַם\], v. KauAT Dr).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 3:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.3/#tree)

שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְקִרְבָּ֔הּ אֲרָי֖וֹת שֹֽׁאֲגִ֑ים שֹׁפְטֶ֙יהָ֙ זְאֵ֣בֵי עֶ֔רֶב לֹ֥א גָרְמ֖וּ לַבֹּֽקֶר׃

*Word for word:* officials its in midst its \[are\].lions roaring judges its \[are\].wolves of.\[the\].evening \[which\].not they.gnaw to the morning

*JPS 1917:* Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the desert, they leave not a bone for the morrow.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b7_5dd/): 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).