Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to crush; also (intransitively and figuratively) to dissolve
KJV Usage: break
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גָּרַס (ga.ras) — to break. 1) to be crushed, be broken 1a) (Qal) to be crushed 1b) (Hiphil) to crush, break (the teeth)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · גֶּרֶשׂ
Impact | verb hif
to wear down = causative action by which humans cause objects to be slowly reduced by friction
Afraid | verb qal
to be consumed = process by which a human's inner person slowly loses its confidence, as an object that is slowly reduced by friction
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[גָּרַס] vb. be crushed Qal my soul is crushed (i.e. perisheth: cf. Syr.) with longing for
Hiph. and he hath crushed my teeth with gravel, fig. of divine chastisement.
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