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title: חָרַק — gnash · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָרַק (2786), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: gnash. BDB 1906: vb. gnash grind. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָרַק

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«חָרַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gnash** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 2786 · **BDB:** חָרַק

### Glosses

\[he.is\].gnashing (1); he.has.gnashed (1); he.will.gnash (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gnash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2786/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. gnash grind [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2786/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gnash or grind the teeth, only poet. (NH id.; Arabic حَرَقَ file, rub together, grate or grind (teeth); Aramaic ܚܰܪܶܩ id.)— Pf. 3 ms. ח׳ Jb 16:9; Impf. יַחֲרֹק ψ 112:10; וַיַּחַרְקוּ־ La 2:16; Inf. abs. חָרֹק ψ 35:16; Pt. חֹרֵק ψ 37:12;—grind the teeth in rage against: ח׳ שׁניו על ψ 37:12; 35:16; abs. without על 112:10 La 2:16 (only here c. שֵׁן sing.); c. בְּ instr. (Ges§ 119. 3 b. R. DaSynt. § 73 R. 6) ח׳ בשׁניו על־ Jb 16:9.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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 «חָרַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2786/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 35:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.16/)

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בְּ֭חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָע֑וֹג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י שִׁנֵּֽימוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (in).godless \[ones\] of.mockers of.cake they.gnashed towards me teeth their

*JPS 1917:* With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

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[Psalms 37:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.12/)

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זֹמֵ֣ם רָ֭שָׁע לַצַּדִּ֑יק וְחֹרֵ֖ק עָלָ֣יו שִׁנָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].planning \[the\].wicked to the righteous and \[he.is\].gnashing towards him teeth his

*JPS 1917:* The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth at him with his teeth.

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