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title: כִּרְסֵם — tear off · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּרְסֵם (3765), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: tear off. BDB 1906: vb. quadril. tear off. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּרְסֵם

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«כִּרְסֵם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tear off** — 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:** 3765 · **BDB:** כִּרְסֵם

### Glosses

it (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tear off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3765/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. quadril. tear off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3765/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. quadril. = , tear off (cf. קִרְסֵם NH cut or eat away, Dt 28:38 𝔗J for חָסַל; on form v. Ges§ 56);—only Impf. 3 ms. sf.:—יְכַרְסְמֶנָּה חֲזִיר מִיָּ֑עַר ψ 80:14 teareth it off (sc. the vine, fig. of Israel).

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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 (2 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 «כִּרְסֵם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3765/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 80:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.14/)

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יְכַרְסְמֶ֣נָּֽה חֲזִ֣יר מִיָּ֑עַרוְזִ֖יז שָׂדַ֣י יִרְעֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* it eats.it.away wild.boar from.\[the\] forest and moving.creature\[s\] of.\[the\].field it grazes.on.it

*JPS 1917:* The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

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