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# גָּרַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1640

**sweep away** — 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

sweep away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1640/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּרַף: vb. sweep away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1640/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sweep away (orig. shovel or scoop up, away, cf. NH id., Arabic جَرَفَ; Aramaic גְּרַף ܓܪܰܦ, Ethiopic in deriv.)— pf. 3 ms. sf. גְּרָפָם (נַחַל קִישׁוֹן) Ju 5:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 5:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.21/#tree)

נַ֤חַל קִישׁוֹן֙ גְּרָפָ֔ם נַ֥חַל קְדוּמִ֖ים נַ֣חַל קִישׁ֑וֹן תִּדְרְכִ֥י נַפְשִׁ֖י עֹֽז׃

*Word for word:* the.wadi of.Kishon it swept.them.away a.wadi of.ancient.times the.wadi of.Kishon you.will.march my.self my strength

*JPS 1917:* The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon. O my soul, tread them down with strength.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1640.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1640/): 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).