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# גָּרַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1638

**be crushed** — 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

be crushed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1638/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּרַס²: vb. be crushed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1638/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be crushed (Aramaic ܓܪܶܣ \[be crushed,\] perish)— Pf. 3 fs. גָּֽרְסָה ψ 119:20 fig. ג׳ נַפְשִׁי לְ my soul is crushed (i.e. perisheth: cf. Syriac) with longing for (cf. כָּלָה לְ). Impf. וַיַּגְרֵס בֶּחָצָץ שִׁנָּ֑י La 3:16 and he hath crushed my teeth with gravel, fig. of divine chastisement.

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 (2 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: he has broken (1); it is crushed (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.20/#tree)

גָּרְסָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֣י לְתַאֲבָ֑ה אֶֽל־מִשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ בְכָל־עֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* it.is.crushed self my for longing to judgments your at every time

*JPS 1917:* My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto Thine ordinances at all times.

[Lamentations 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.16/#tree)

וַיַּגְרֵ֤ס בֶּֽחָצָץ֙ שִׁנָּ֔י הִכְפִּישַׁ֖נִי בָּאֵֽפֶר׃

*Word for word:* and he.has.broken with (the) gravel teeth my he has.made.me.cower in (the) ash\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1638.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1638/): 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).