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# כִּרְסֵם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3765

**tear off** — 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

tear off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3765/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּרְסֵם: vb. quadril. tear off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3765/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. quadril. = , tear off (cf. קִרְסֵם NH cut or eat away, Dt 28:38 𝔗J for חָסַל; on form v. Ges§ 56);—only Impf. 3 ms. sf.:—יְכַרְסְמֶנָּה חֲזִיר מִיָּ֑עַר ψ 80:14 teareth it off (sc. the vine, fig. of Israel).

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 (2 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

[Psalms 80:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.14/#tree)

יְכַרְסְמֶ֣נָּֽה חֲזִ֣יר מִיָּ֑עַרוְזִ֖יז שָׂדַ֣י יִרְעֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* it eats.it.away wild.boar from.\[the\] forest and moving.creature\[s\] of.\[the\].field it grazes.on.it

*JPS 1917:* The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3765.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3765/): 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).