Strong's Hebrew · H1641

גָּרַר

gârar · gaw-rar'

catch, chew, [idiom] continuing, destroy, saw.

Definition

to drag off roughly; by implication, to bring up the cud (i.e. ruminate); by analogy, to saw

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 5 times in Scripture

Leviticus 11:7

And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

Habakkuk 1:15

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

1 Kings 7:9

All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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