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 39Old Testament books
- 43spellings
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
Twelve of the word's forty-six uses are in Exodus.
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָּרַע | gara | to dimish | Uses22 |
| גָּרָה | garah | to stir up | Uses14 |
| גָּרוֹן | garon | throat | Uses8 |
| גָּרַר | garar | to drag/chew/saw | Uses6 |
| גָּרָב | garab | scab | Uses3 |
| גָּרַם | garam | to reserve | Uses3 |
| גָּרַס | garas | to break | Uses2 |
| גָּרַד | garad | to scrape | Uses1 |
| גָּרַז | garaz | to cut off | Uses1 |
| גָּרַף | garaph | to sweep away | Uses1 |
| גָּרֹל | garol | harsh | Usesnot recorded |
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.
- 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.”
- 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!”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.’”
- וְגֵרַשְׁתִּֽיו׃vegerashtivHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will drive out it
Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.
- 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!’
- 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.
- 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!”
- 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.”
- 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.
- וָאֲגָרֵ֤שׁvaagareshHc/Vpw1cstagged: and I drove out
Abimelech stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.
- 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.”
- 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?”
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- וַיְגָ֤רֶשׁvaygareshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he drove out
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- יְגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּהָyegareshuhaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: people will drive out it
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 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.
