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title: גָּרַד — scrape · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּרַד (1623), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: scrape. BDB 1906: vb. scrape, scratch. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּרַד

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«גָּרַד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **scrape** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1623 · **BDB:** גָּרַד

### Glosses

scrape.himself (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

scrape [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1623/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. scrape, scratch [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1623/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. scrape, scratch (NH id., Aramaic גְּרַד, ܓܪܰܕ \& Ph. מגרדם flesh-scrapers CIS 338. 4; cf. also Arabic جَرَدَ peel or strip off bark, shave hair from a hide etc.)— Inf. לְהִתְגָּרֵד scrape one’s self Jb 2:8.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּרַד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1623/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 2:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.2.8/)

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וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לְהִתְגָּרֵ֖ד בּ֑וֹ וְה֖וּא יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּתוֹךְ־הָאֵֽפֶר׃

*Word for word:* and he.took for himself a.potsherd to scrape.himself with it and he \[was\].sitting in the.midst the ash\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.

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