HebrewH1644Verb

גָּרַשׁ

ga.rash

41Occurrences
H1644Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce

a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
drive out 1) to drive out, expel, cast out, drive away, divorce, put away, thrust away, trouble, cast up 1a) (Qal) to thrust out, cast out 1b) (Niphal) to be driven away, be tossed 1c) (Piel) to drive out, drive away 1d) (Pual) to be thrust out Also means: ga.rash (*גָּרַשׁ *": divorce" H1644H)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

גָּרַשׁ appears 41 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
11
Judges
5
Genesis
3
Leviticus
3
Ezk
2
Joshua
2
Numbers
2
1 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 17:21BSB

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.

Exodus 12:39BSB

Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

Exodus 6:1BSB

But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

Judges 11:2BSB

And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”

Leviticus 21:7BSB

A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

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