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# גָּרַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1641

**drag** — used 4 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

drag [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1641/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּרַר: vb. drag, drag away Qal Poʿal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1641/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drag, drag away (NH id., Arabic جَرَّ, Aramaic גְּרַר, ܓܰܪ; Assyrian garâru, run, ZimBP 102; etc.)— Impf. sf. יְגֹרֵהוּ Hb 1:15, יְגוֹרֵם Pr 21:7—drag away, fishes in net, fig. Hb 1:15 (Chaldeans, their opponents); violence, the wicked Pr 21:7. (read Qal? Sam. יָגוֹר cf. Di) Impf. יִגָּ֑ר Lv 11:7 c. acc. cogn. גֵּרָה לֹא־יִגָּ֑ר = (the) cud he cheweth not, cf. also Dt 14:8 Sam. 𝔊 (Di) Poʿal. Pt. (denom.; so NH Qal & Niph.) מְגֹרָרוֹת בַּמְּגֵרָה 1 K 7:9 sawn with the saw. סַעַר מִתְגּוֹרֵ֑ר Je 30:23 a (sweeping) roaring whirlwind (‖ 23:19 has מִתְחוֹלֵל). On יִתְגּוֹרָרוּ Ho 7:14, v. I. גור, גדד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 21:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.7/#tree)

שֹׁד־רְשָׁעִ֥ים יְגוֹרֵ֑ם כִּ֥י מֵ֝אֲנ֗וּ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].violence of.wicked.\[people\] it will.drag.them.away (dm) they.refuse to do justice

*JPS 1917:* The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse to do justly.

[Leviticus 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.7/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַ֠חֲזִיר כִּֽי־מַפְרִ֨יס פַּרְסָ֜ה ה֗וּא וְשֹׁסַ֥ע שֶׁ֙סַע֙ פַּרְסָ֔ה וְה֖וּא גֵּרָ֣ה לֹֽא־יִגָּ֑ר טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the pig (dm) \[is\].dividing.in.two a.hoof it and.\[is\] cleaving a.cleft of.a.hoof and it cud not it.ruminates \[is\].unclean it to you

*JPS 1917:* And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1641.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1641/): 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).