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
Space | verb qal
to leave a bone = causative action by which a wild animal causes one of the bones of its victim to remain
1 EZK 23:34 NJPS NRSV REB ESV | RSV "to pluck out" | NIV "dash to pieces" REB "break in pieces"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[גָּרַם] vb. lay aside, leave, save base
[גָּרַם] vb. denom. break bones, break base
