גָּרַשׁ
gârash · gaw-rash'
to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce
- to drive out from a possession
- especially to expatriate or divorce
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, [idiom] surely put away, trouble, thrust out.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the head, the highest › to consume, to destroy
To carry, to lift up of the head, the highest that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גָּרַשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
47 occurrences · 47 OT · 0 NT · 44 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- cast out2 · 7%
- i will not drive them out2 · 7%
- i will drive them out2 · 7%
- thrust out2 · 7%
- so he drove out1 · 3%
- behold, thou hast driven me out1 · 3%
- and drove them away1 · 3%
- shall he drive them out1 · 3%
- and they were driven out1 · 3%
- he shall surely1 · 3%
- thrust you out1 · 3%
- because they were thrust out1 · 3%
- thee, which shall drive out1 · 3%
- and thou shalt drive them out1 · 3%
- thee; and i will drive out1 · 3%
- behold, i drive out1 · 3%
- put away1 · 3%
- or a divorced woman1 · 3%
- or divorced1 · 3%
- them, and that i may drive them out1 · 3%
- them, and drive them out1 · 3%
- and of her that is divorced1 · 3%
- and he shall thrust out1 · 3%
- you, which drave them out1 · 3%
- drave out1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.