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# עָרַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6207

**gnaw** — 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

gnaw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6207/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרַק: vb. gnaw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6207/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gnaw (Arabic عَرَقَ id.; Syriac ܥܪܱܩ, Pa.); = Syriac in Lexx., and Pa.; but Syriac usually flee, as 𝔗.— Pt. pl. הַעֹרְקִים צִיָּה Jb 30:3 they who gnaw the dry (ground; fig. of scanty subsistence); sf. עֹרְקַי v 17 my gnawing (pains) do not sleep.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: my gnawing (1); who\] gnaw (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/#tree)

בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* by poverty and by hunger barren \[those who\].gnaw a.dry.region yesterday devastation and desolation

*JPS 1917:* They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

[Job 30:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.17/#tree)

לַ֗יְלָה עֲ֭צָמַי נִקַּ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י לֹ֣א יִשְׁכָּבֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* night bones my it.has.pierced from on me and my.gnawing \[pains\] not they rest

*JPS 1917:* In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6207.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6207/): 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).