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# גֶּרֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1634

**bone** — used 5 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

bone [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1634/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫רֶם: bone, strength, self [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1634/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bone, strength, self (?) (Arabic جِرْمٌ body, Aramaic גְּרַם, ܓܪܶܡ bone, self)—abs. גָּ֑רֶם Gn 49:14 + 2 times; cstr. גֶּרֶם 2 K 9:13; sf. גְּרָמָיו Jb 40:18;— bone Pr 17:22 (coll.) 25:15; of behemoth (hippopot.) Jb 40:18 (‖ עצם q.v.) strength Gn 49:14 חֲמֹר גָּ֑רֶם strong ass (lit. bony, so VB). self (cf. עצם), 2 K 9:13 גֶּרֶם הַמַּעֲלוֹת so Ges Ew Ke, but text dub., v. conjectures in Klo.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] bone\[s\] (1); a bone (1); limbs (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.14/#tree)

יִשָּׂשכָ֖ר חֲמֹ֣ר גָּ֑רֶם רֹבֵ֖ץ בֵּ֥ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* Issachar \[is\].a.donkey of.bone lying.down between the.two saddlebaskets

*JPS 1917:* Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds.

[Job 40:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.18/#tree)

עֲ֭צָמָיו אֲפִיקֵ֣י נְחוּשָׁ֑ה גְּ֝רָמָ֗יו כִּמְטִ֥יל בַּרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* bones its \[are\].tubes of.bronze limbs its \[are\].like a.rod of.iron

*JPS 1917:* His bones are as pipes of brass; his gristles are like bars of iron.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1634.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1634/): 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).