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Hebrew verb · H1640

גָּרַף

garaphgaw-raf'

to sweep away

1 use in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gâraph

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1640is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    Old Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1640

to bear off violently

The King James renders it: sweep away.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

garaph is rendered "to sweep away". It stands 1 time in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 5:21The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

The first use

The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

Judges 5:21גְּרָפָ֔ם

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it swept away them1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

גָּרַשׁgarashto drive out: drive outUses46
גָּרַעgarato dimishUses22
גָּרָהgarahto stir upUses14
גָּרוֹןgaronthroatUses8
גָּרַרgararto drag/chew/sawUses6
גָּרָבgarabscabUses3
גָּרַםgaramto reserveUses3
גָּרַסgarasto breakUses2
גָּרַדgaradto scrapeUses1
גָּרַזgarazto cut offUses1
גָּרֹלgarolharshUsesnot recorded

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • גְּרָפָ֔ם1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqp3ms/Sp3mp

Judges

one use
  • The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

    Judges 5:21

    • גְּרָפָ֔םgerafamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it swept away them

The letters

Gematria 283· 1,003 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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