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title: גֵּרָה — cud · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֵּרָה (1625), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: cud. BDB 1906: n.f. cud. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֵּרָה

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«גֵּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cud** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 1625 · **BDB:** גֵּרָה²

### Glosses

(of).cud (6); cud (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cud [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1625/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cud [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1625/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cud (Arabic جِرَّةٌ, so called from sound of rumination?)—גֵּרָה Lv 11:3 + 10 times—cud, only in legislation of clean and unclean animals, and almost always c. (ֵי, ַת, ָה) מַעֲלֵה Lv 11:3, 4(×2), 5, 6, 26 (P) Dt 14:6, 7(×2); ג׳ יִגָּ֑ר (cf. גרר Niph.) Lv 11:7; Dt 14:8 has גֵּרָה without vb., but read there as Lv 11:7 (so Sam. 𝔊 Di).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֵּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1625/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.3/)

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כֹּ֣ל ׀ מַפְרֶ֣סֶת פַּרְסָ֗ה וְשֹׁסַ֤עַת שֶׁ֙סַע֙ פְּרָסֹ֔ת מַעֲלַ֥ת גֵּרָ֖ה בַּבְּהֵמָ֑ה אֹתָ֖הּ תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* any \[one.which\].divides.in.two a.hoof and.\[which\] cleaves a.cleft of.hooves \[which\].brings.up (of).cud among the animal\[s\] it you.will.eat

*JPS 1917:* Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

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[Leviticus 11:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.5/)

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וְאֶת־הַשָּׁפָ֗ן כִּֽי־מַעֲלֵ֤ה גֵרָה֙ ה֔וּא וּפַרְסָ֖ה לֹ֣א יַפְרִ֑יס טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.rock badger (dm) \[is\].bringing.up (of).cud it and a.hoof not it.divides.in.two \[is\].unclean it to you

*JPS 1917:* And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

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