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# חָרַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2786

**gnash** — used 5 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

gnash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2786/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרַק: vb. gnash grind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2786/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gnash or grind the teeth, only poet. (NH id.; Arabic حَرَقَ file, rub together, grate or grind (teeth); Aramaic ܚܰܪܶܩ id.)— Pf. 3 ms. ח׳ Jb 16:9; Impf. יַחֲרֹק ψ 112:10; וַיַּחַרְקוּ־ La 2:16; Inf. abs. חָרֹק ψ 35:16; Pt. חֹרֵק ψ 37:12;—grind the teeth in rage against: ח׳ שׁניו על ψ 37:12; 35:16; abs. without על 112:10 La 2:16 (only here c. שֵׁן sing.); c. בְּ instr. (Ges§ 119. 3 b. R. DaSynt. § 73 R. 6) ח׳ בשׁניו על־ Jb 16:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: \[he is\] gnashing (1); he has gnashed (1); he will gnash (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 35:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/#tree)

בְּ֭חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָע֑וֹג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י שִׁנֵּֽימוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (in).godless \[ones\] of.mockers of.cake they.gnashed towards me teeth their

*JPS 1917:* With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

[Psalms 37:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.12/#tree)

זֹמֵ֣ם רָ֭שָׁע לַצַּדִּ֑יק וְחֹרֵ֖ק עָלָ֣יו שִׁנָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].planning \[the\].wicked to the righteous and \[he.is\].gnashing towards him teeth his

*JPS 1917:* The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth at him with his teeth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2786.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2786/): 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).