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Hebrew verb · H1644

גָּרַשׁ

garashgaw-rash'

to drive out: drive out

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

Concordance spelling: gârash

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1644is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 43
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1644

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

The King James renders it: cast up (out), divorced (woman), drive away (forth, out), expel, [idiom] surely put away, trouble, thrust out.

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

garash is rendered "to drive out: drive out". It stands 46 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:24So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-three different ways.

The first use

So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 3:24וַיְגָ֖רֶשׁ

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

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he drove out5
  • and a divorced4
  • and I will drive out it2
  • drive out2
  • I will drive out it2
  • about to drive out1
  • and did you drive out? me1
  • and he has driven out1
  • and I drove out1
  • and I will drive out1
  • and it drove out1
  • and it will be tossed1

and 24 more, 46 uses in all

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.

גָּרַעgarato dimishUses22
גָּרָהgarahto stir upUses14
גָּרוֹןgaronthroatUses8
גָּרַרgararto drag/chew/sawUses6
גָּרָבgarabscabUses3
גָּרַםgaramto reserveUses3
גָּרַסgarasto breakUses2
גָּרַדgaradto scrapeUses1
גָּרַזgarazto cut offUses1
גָּרַףgaraphto sweep awayUses1
גָּרֹלgarolharshUsesnot recorded

The words it stands beside

All 46, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

43 spellings 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

  • גָּרֵ֛שׁ2
  • וַיְגָ֤רֶשׁ2
  • וַיְגָ֧רֶשׁ2
  • אֲגָרֵ֥שׁ1
  • אֲגָרְשֵׁ֑ם1
  • אֲגָרְשֶׁ֛נּוּ1
  • אֲגָרְשֶׁ֖נּוּ1
  • גְּרוּשָׁ֥ה1
  • גָּ֣רֵֽשׁ1
  • גֹרֵ֣שׁ1
  • גֹרְשׁ֣וּ1
  • גֵרְשׁ֣וּנִי1

and 31 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vpw3ms7Hc/Vpw3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular4HC/Vqsfsa
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpi1cs/Sp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpv2ms
  • Hc/VNq3fs1Hc/VNq3fs
  • Hc/Vpq1cs1Hc/Vpq1cs
  • Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vpq2ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpq2ms/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vpq3fs1Hc/Vpq3fs
  • HC/Vpu1cs/Sp3ms1HC/Vpu1cs/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vpw1cs1Hc/Vpw1cs
  • Hc/Vpw2mp/Sp1bs1Hc/Vpw2mp/Sp1bs

Genesis

three uses
  • So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

    Genesis 3:24

    • וַיְגָ֖רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he drove out
  • Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

    Genesis 4:14

    • גֵּרַ֨שְׁתָּgerashtaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have driven away
  • and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

    Genesis 21:10

    • גָּרֵ֛שׁgareshverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: drive out

Exodus

twelve uses
  • And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

    Exodus 2:17

    • וַיְגָרְשׁ֑וּםvaygareshumHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they drove away them
  • 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.”

    Exodus 6:1

    • יְגָרְשֵׁ֖םyegareshemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he will drive out them
  • No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.

    Exodus 10:11

    • וַיְגָ֣רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and someone drove out
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt one more plague. After that, he will allow you to leave this place. And when he lets you go, he will drive you out completely.

    Exodus 11:1

    • גָּרֵ֛שׁgareshverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: completely drive out
    • יְגָרֵ֥שׁyegareshverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will drive out
  • 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 12:39

    • גֹרְשׁ֣וּgoreshuverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had been driven out
  • I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

    Exodus 23:28

    • וְגֵרְשָׁ֗הvegereshahHc/Vpq3fstagged: and it will drive out
  • I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

    Exodus 23:29

    • אֲגָרְשֶׁ֛נּוּʾagareshenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I will drive out it
  • Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

    Exodus 23:30

    • אֲגָרְשֶׁ֖נּוּʾagareshenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I will drive out it
  • And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

    Exodus 23:31

    • וְגֵרַשְׁתָּ֖מוֹvegerashtamovHc/Vpq2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will drive out them
  • And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    Exodus 33:2

    • וְגֵֽרַשְׁתִּ֗יvegerashtiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will drive out
  • Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    Exodus 34:11

    • גֹרֵ֣שׁgoreshverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to drive out

Leviticus

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

    Leviticus 21:7

    • גְּרוּשָׁ֥הgerushahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: divorced
  • He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

    Leviticus 21:14

    • וּגְרוּשָׁה֙ugerushahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: and a divorced
  • But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

    Leviticus 22:13

    • וּגְרוּשָׁ֗הugerushahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: and a divorced

Numbers

three uses
  • So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”

    Numbers 22:6

    • וַאֲגָרְשֶׁ֖נּוּvaagareshenuHC/Vpu1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will drive out it
  • ‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.’”

    Numbers 22:11

    • וְגֵרַשְׁתִּֽיו׃vegerashtivHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will drive out it
  • Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

    Numbers 30:9

    • וּגְרוּשָׁ֑הugerushahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: and a divorced

Deuteronomy

one use
  • The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

    Deuteronomy 33:27

    • וַיְגָ֧רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he has driven out

Joshua

two uses
  • I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

    Joshua 24:12

    • וַתְּגָ֤רֶשׁvategareshHc/Vpw3fstagged: and it drove out
  • And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”

    Joshua 24:18

    • וַיְגָ֨רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he drove out

Judges

five uses
  • So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

    Judges 2:3

    • אֲגָרֵ֥שׁʾagareshverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will drive out
  • I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

    Judges 6:9

    • וָאֲגָרֵ֤שׁvaagareshHc/Vpw1cstagged: and I drove out
  • Abimelech stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.

    Judges 9:41

    • וַיְגָ֧רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he drove out
  • 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.”

    Judges 11:2

    • וַיְגָרְשׁ֣וּvaygareshuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they drove out
  • Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”

    Judges 11:7

    • וַתְּגָרְשׁ֖וּנִיvategareshuniHc/Vpw2mp/Sp1bstagged: and did you drive out? me

1 Samuel

one use
  • Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

    1 Samuel 26:19

    • גֵרְשׁ֣וּנִיgereshuniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have driven out me

1 Kings

one use
  • So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

    1 Kings 2:27

    • וַיְגָ֤רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he drove out

1 Chronicles

one use
  • 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.

    1 Chronicles 17:21

    • לְגָרֵ֗שׁlegareshpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by driving out

2 Chronicles

one use
  • See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.

    2 Chronicles 20:11

    • לְגָ֣רְשֵׁ֔נוּlegareshenupreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to drive out us

Job

one use
  • They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

    Job 30:5

    • יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּyegorashuverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are driven away

Psalms

two uses
  • He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

    Psalms 78:55

    • וַיְגָ֤רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he drove out
  • You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

    Psalms 80:8

    • תְּגָרֵ֥שׁtegareshverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you drove out

Proverbs

one use
  • Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

    Proverbs 22:10

    • גָּ֣רֵֽשׁgareshverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: drive out

Isaiah

two uses
  • But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.

    Isaiah 57:20

    • נִגְרָ֑שׁnigrashverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: tossed
    • וַיִּגְרְשׁ֥וּvaiyigreshuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have tossed up

Ezekiel

two uses
  • I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

    Ezekiel 31:11

    • גֵּרַשְׁתִּֽהוּ׃gerashtihuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I drove out it
  • And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.

    Ezekiel 44:22

    • וּגְרוּשָׁ֔הugerushahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: and a divorced

Hosea

one use
  • All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

    Hosea 9:15

    • אֲגָרְשֵׁ֑םʾagareshemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will drive out them

Amos

one use
  • Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

    Amos 8:8

    • וְנִגְרְשָׁ֥הvenigreshahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will be tossed

Jonah

one use
  • At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

    Jonah 2:4

    • נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּיnigrashtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been driven away

Micah

one use
  • You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.

    Micah 2:9

    • תְּגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּןtegareshunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you drive out

Zephaniah

one use
  • For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

    Zephaniah 2:4

    • יְגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּהָyegareshuhaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: people will drive out it

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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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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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