Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to drag off roughly; by implication, to bring up the cud (i.e. ruminate); by analogy, to saw
KJV Usage: catch, chew, X continuing, destroy, saw
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גָּרַר (ga.rar) — to drag/chew/saw. 1) to drag, drag away 1a) (Qal) to drag away 1b) (Niphal) to chew the cud 1c) (Poal) sawn (participle) 1d) (Hithpoel) roaring (participle)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · גֵּרָה · גָּרֹון
Move | verb qal
to drag away, to pull up = causative action by which humans remove objects from their place with force
Ingest | verb nif
Collocation: גרר גֵּרָה
to chew the cud = action by which ruminating animals bring up food into their mouth from their first stomach to be chewed a second time
verb · מְגֵרָה
Impact | verb pu'al
to trim = causative action by which humans smoothen the surface of stones with a stone plane or stone file
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[גָּרַר] vb. drag, drag away Qal drag away
Niph. (the) cud he cheweth not
Po‛al sawn with the saw
Hithpo. a (sweeping) roaring whirlwind
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