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title: גָּרַף — sweep away · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּרַף (1640), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sweep away. BDB 1906: vb. sweep away. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּרַף

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«גָּרַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sweep away** — 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:** 1640 · **BDB:** גָּרַף

### Glosses

it (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sweep away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1640/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. sweep away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1640/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sweep away (orig. shovel or scoop up, away, cf. NH id., Arabic جَرَفَ; Aramaic גְּרַף ܓܪܰܦ, Ethiopic in deriv.)— pf. 3 ms. sf. גְּרָפָם (נַחַל קִישׁוֹן) Ju 5:21.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּרַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1640/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 5:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.21/)

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נַ֤חַל קִישׁוֹן֙ גְּרָפָ֔ם נַ֥חַל קְדוּמִ֖ים נַ֣חַל קִישׁ֑וֹן תִּדְרְכִ֥י נַפְשִׁ֖י עֹֽז׃

*Word for word:* the.wadi of.Kishon it swept.them.away a.wadi of.ancient.times the.wadi of.Kishon you.will.march my.self my strength

*JPS 1917:* The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon. O my soul, tread them down with strength.

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