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# גְּרָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1642

**Gerar** — used 10 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

Gerar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1642/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּרָר: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1642/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. south of Gaza, usually identif. with mod. Umm Jerâr BdPal. 159 GuérinJudée ii. 257 ff.; but Wady Jerūr W. of ʿAin Ḳadīs according to Trumbull Kadesh Barnea 61 ff. cf. Guthe ZPV viii. 1885, 215; Gn 20:2; 26:6, 20, 26; 2 Ch 14:12, 13; גְּרָ֫רָה Gn 10:19; 26:1; נַ֫חַל גְּרָר Gn 26:17; וַיָּגָר בִּגְרָר Gn 20:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gerar (5); of Gerar (3); to (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.6/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב יִצְחָ֖ק בִּגְרָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.dwelt Isaac in Gerar

*JPS 1917:* And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

[Genesis 26:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.17/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ מִשָּׁ֖ם יִצְחָ֑ק וַיִּ֥חַן בְּנַֽחַל־גְּרָ֖ר וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and he.went from there Isaac and he.encamped in the.wadi of.Gerar and he.dwelt there

*JPS 1917:* And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1642/): 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).