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# גֶּרֶשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1643

**a crushing** — 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

a crushing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1643/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫רֶשׂ: crushing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1643/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a crushing, but only concrete of that which is crushed, groats, grits (cf. Arabic جَرِيشٌ, NH גְּרִיס, Aramaic (rare) גִּרְשָׂא, גְּרוּסְיָא, ܓܳܪܣܳܐ )—אָבִיב קָלוּי בָּאֵשׁ גֶּרֶשׂ כַּרְמֶל Lv 2:14 young ears parched with fire, groats (&) fresh fruit (v. Sifra ad loc.); (וּמִשַּׁמְנָהּ) מִגִּרְשָׂהּ Lv 2:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Leviticus 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.14/#tree)

וְאִם־תַּקְרִ֛יב מִנְחַ֥ת בִּכּוּרִ֖ים לַיהוָ֑ה אָבִ֞יב קָל֤וּי בָּאֵשׁ֙ גֶּ֣רֶשׂ כַּרְמֶ֔ל תַּקְרִ֕יב אֵ֖ת מִנְחַ֥ת בִּכּוּרֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and if you.will.present a.grain.offering of.first-fruits to Yahweh young.barley.ear\[s\] roasted in the fire groats of.new.corn you.will.present (et) the.grain.offering your.first-fruits your

*JPS 1917:* And if thou bring a meal-offering of first-fruits unto the LORD, thou shalt bring for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits corn in the ear parched with fire, even groats of the fresh ear.

[Leviticus 2:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.16/#tree)

וְהִקְטִ֨יר הַכֹּהֵ֜ן אֶת־אַזְכָּרָתָ֗הּ מִגִּרְשָׂהּ֙ וּמִשַּׁמְנָ֔הּ עַ֖ל כָּל־לְבֹנָתָ֑הּ אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַיהוָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.will.make.smoke the priest (et) offering its.memorial some of its.groats and some of its.oil with all frankincense its a.fire.offering to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall make the memorial-part of it smoke, even of the groats thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1643.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1643/): 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).