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H1633 גָּרַם (gâram) gaw-ram'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to be spare or skeleton-like; used only as a denominative from 1634; (causative) to bone, i.e. denude (by extensive, craunch) the bones

KJV Usage: gnaw the bones, break

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

גָּרַם (ga.ram) — to reserve. 1) to cut off, reserve, lay aside, leave, save 1a) (Qal) to reserve

גָּרַם (ga.ram) — to break bones. (Piel) to break bones, gnaw bones, break

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · גֶּרֶם · גַּרְמִי

Impact | verb pi

to chew, to gnaw = causative action by which humans or animals chew on an object persistently in an effort to satisfy their hunger or thirst

NUM 24:8 · EZK 23:34

Space | verb qal

to leave a bone = causative action by which a wild animal causes one of the bones of its victim to remain

ZEP 3:3

1 EZK 23:34 NJPS NRSV REB ESV | RSV "to pluck out" | NIV "dash to pieces" REB "break in pieces"

Reinier de Blois

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[גָּרַם] vb. lay aside, leave, save base

[גָּרַם] vb. denom. break bones, break base

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