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title: גָּרַם — break bones · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּרַם (1633), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: break bones. BDB 1906: vb.denom. break bones, break. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּרַם

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«גָּרַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **break bones** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 1633 · **BDB:** גָּרַם²

### Glosses

it.will.break (1); you.will.break (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

break bones [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1633/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.denom. break bones, break [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1633/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. break bones, break— Impf. וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶם יְגָרֵם Nu 24:8 (JE); but also וְאֶת־חֲרָשֶׂיהָ תְּגָרֵ֖מִי Ez 23:34 (yet on text v. Co.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּרַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1633/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 24:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.8/)

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אֵ֚ל מוֹצִיא֣וֹ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם כְּתוֹעֲפֹ֥ת רְאֵ֖ם ל֑וֹ יֹאכַ֞ל גּוֹיִ֣ם צָרָ֗יו וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶ֛ם יְגָרֵ֖ם וְחִצָּ֥יו יִמְחָֽץ׃

*Word for word:* God \[is\].bringing it.out from Egypt like.\[the\] horns of.a.wild.ox \[belong\].to him it.will.consume nations foes its and bones their it.will.break and arrows its it.will.wound.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* God who brought him forth out of Egypt is for him like the lofty horns of the wild-ox; he shall eat up the nations that are his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them through with his arrows.

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[Ezekiel 23:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.34/)

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וְשָׁתִ֨ית אוֹתָ֜הּ וּמָצִ֗ית וְאֶת־חֲרָשֶׂ֛יהָ תְּגָרֵ֖מִי וְשָׁדַ֣יִךְ תְּנַתֵּ֑קִי כִּ֚י אֲנִ֣י דִבַּ֔רְתִּי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and you.will.drink it and you.will.drain.\[it\] and (et) fragments its you.will.break and breasts your you.will.tear.out (dm) I I.have.spoken the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt even drink it and drain it, and thou shalt craunch the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

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