Hebrew verb · H2786
חָרַק
charaqkhaw-rak'
to grind
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châraq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2786is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2786
to grate the teeth
The King James renders it: gnash.
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
charaq is rendered "to grind". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
Job 16:9חָרַ֣ק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and gnashing1
- and they have gnashed1
- he has gnashed1
- he will gnash1
- they gnashed1
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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְחֹרֵ֖ק1
- וַיַּֽחַרְקוּ־1
- חָרַ֣ק1
- חָרֹ֖ק1
- יַחֲרֹ֣ק1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Job
one use
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- חָרַ֣קcharakverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has gnashed
Psalms
three uses
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- חָרֹ֖קcharokverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: they gnashed
The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- וְחֹרֵ֖קvechorekconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and gnashing
The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
- יַחֲרֹ֣קyacharokverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will gnash
Lamentations
one use
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
- וַיַּֽחַרְקוּ־vaiyacharku-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have gnashed
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.